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Thomas Cobham, Bishop of Worcester. Cobham Thomas King and council. Bishop of Worcester...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/150/7482

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Reference
SC 8/150/7482
Date
[? 1322]
Description
Petitioners
Thomas Cobham, Bishop of Worcester.
Name(s)
Cobham, Thomas
Addressees
King and council.
Occupation
Bishop of Worcester
Nature of request
Thomas, Bishop of Worcester states that John Giffard, who held the manor of Stoke Gifford of him as of the right of his church, and several other tenants who held of him, have forfeited their lands and tenements in war against the King, so that these lands and tenements are now in the King's hand. He asks that the services and customs due to him from the said manor might be given to him, so that he does not lose and that his church is not disinherited.
Nature of endorsement
Coram rege.He is to specify in whose hands the manor is now, and which tenants held of the bishop, and which tenements, and where, and by what service.
Places mentioned
Stoke Gifford, [Gloucestershire]
Henbury, [Gloucestershire]
Brentry hundred, [Gloucestershire].
People mentioned
John Giffard.
Note
CFR 1319-27 p.97 is dated 18 February 1322, and CCR 1318-23 p.426 is dated 5 March 1322. If the manor was restored, this petition would seem to date from around February 1322, but, if, as the petition seems to suggest, the manor was held by John Giffard and not his mother, it might be later, but before 1327.
Related material

For transcript, see no.50 of PRO 31/7/100

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1318-1323, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.426 (order to Richard Lovel to restore the manor to Margaret Giffard, mother of John Giffard, if he found she held it in dower)
  • Calendar of Fine Rolls, vol. III, Edw II, 1319-1327, (Public Record Office, 1913), p.97 (commitment during pleasure of the manor of Stoke Gifford, forfeited by John Giffard, to Richard Lovel)
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