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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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John Grandisson, Bishop of Exeter. Grandisson John King and council. Bishop of Exeter...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/155/7747
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This record is about the John Grandisson, Bishop of Exeter. Grandisson John King and council. Bishop of Exeter... dating from [1340] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/155/7747
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1340]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John Grandisson, Bishop of Exeter.
- Name(s)
- Grandisson, John
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Occupation
- Bishop of Exeter
- Nature of request
- [The sense of the petition is impossible to recover from the petition as the petition has suffered considerable damage, and over half of the petition is illegible, however the contents of the petition are found in a close roll entry from which the following is supplied].The bishop requests remedy as Helygan has sued a writ of quare impedit against him demanding the right to present a parson to the church of Malynyet though the bishop claims nothing in it except as ordinary, and the process continues against him.1)
- Nature of endorsement
- Before the king and his great council.2) It is agreed by the great council that a writ under the great seal be directed to the justices of Common Pleas reciting the complaint of the petition, and that by the writ it be ordered to the justices that if the bishop be put to plead and answer to the general impediment and of . . .[the remainder is illegible].
- Places mentioned
- Exeter, [Devon]
- Westminster.
- People mentioned
- [Adam de Helygan]
- Thomas de Stapelton.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition dates to 1340 as it was answered by an order to supersede the process against the petitioner if his claims were found true (CCR 1339-41, p.401).
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. V, 1339-1341, (Public Record Office, 1901), p.401 (order to supersede further process if the bishop's allegations are found true)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9209939/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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