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Alan de Shutlyngden (Shitlington), clerk, late keeper of the hospital of Sherburn....

Catalogue reference: SC 8/159/7949

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This record is about the Alan de Shutlyngden (Shitlington), clerk, late keeper of the hospital of Sherburn.... dating from [1362-1366] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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SC 8/159/7949
Date
[1362-1366]
Description
Petitioners
Alan de Shutlyngden (Shitlington), clerk, late keeper of the hospital of Sherburn.
Name(s)
de Shutlyngden (Shitlington), Alan
Addressees
King and council.
Occupation
late keeper of the hospital of Sherburn
Nature of request
Shutlyngden requests remedy and the discovery of his right and to make discussion and summon the justices, sheriff and undersheriff and other ministers present at the inquest to be examined on oath about the truth of his removal from his position as keeper, and that he may have a verdict passed by the knights and better-informed of those parts . . . He was removed following an inquest made into the matter that consisted of men of little worth and knowledge brought to Newcastle by Heton and other enemies of Shutlyngden. He had the keeping by the grant of the present bishop but he was removed on the supposition that the hospital fell void and remained so until the temporalities came into the king's hands after the death of Bishop Bury though this was not the case.
Nature of endorsement
Let the king be informed on this matter, and he will say his will.
Places mentioned
Sherburn, [County Durham]
Northumberland
Antwerp, [Belgium]
Newcastle upon Tyne, [Northumberland].
People mentioned
[Thomas de Hatfield], Bishop of Durham
Richard de Bury, Bishop of Durham
Thomas de Hessewell (Haswell), Master of the Hospital of Sherburn
Thomas de Neville, Master of the Hospital of Sherburn
John de Whichirche, Bishop's vicar general
Alan de Heton.
Note
The petition is dated on the basis of the date ascribed to it by Constance Fraser (Northern Petitions, pp.192-5 (no.144)). The hospital had been granted to one Thomas de Bernolby on 27 March 1366, so the petition can be no later than that (CPR 1364-7, p.226).
Related material

For an alternative version of this petition see SC 8/71/3524

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. XIII, 1364-1367, (Public Record Office, 1913), p.226 (grant for life of the wardenship of the hospital to one Thomas de Bernolby)
  • Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), pp.192-5 (no.144) (full edition of alternative version of this petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9210141/

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