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? No Petitioner named Copy of a writ of Richard II to Portehay and others to hold...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/171/8549

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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Copy of a writ of Richard II to Portehay and others to hold... dating from [? 1379] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/171/8549
Date
[? 1379]
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Copy of a writ of Richard II to Portehay and others to hold an inquisition into the bishop of Exeter's rights in the church and priory of Plympton, as in the time of Bishop Grandisson, Prior Doulyssh was forced to resign as he had been elected without the king's licence and Person elected in his place, the presentation to the bishop's disinheritance.
Nature of endorsement
Beaumont, Branscombe, Chisledon and Kendal have fully executed the writ as appears by the inquisition sown to the writ.
Places mentioned
Exeter, [Devon]
Plympton, [Devon]
Westminster.
People mentioned
Richard II, King of England
Henry Portehay
John Beaumond (Beaumont), knight
Richard Brankescombe (Branscombe)
Richard Chyselden (Chisledon)
Richard Kendale (Kendal), escheator of Devon
Thomas [Brantingham], bishop of Exeter
John Graunsoun (Grandisson), bishop of Exeter
Thomas Doulissh (Doulyssh), prior of Plympton
Richard Persoun (Person), prior of Plympton.
Note
The writ dates to? 1379. with the petition to which it was formerly attached (SC 8/171/5848). The writ is dated in its dating clause to 26 Mat 1378 (1 Ric. II).
Related material

For a related petition which probably accompanied this writ, see SC 8/171/8548

For a related petition see SC 8/215/10739

For the inquisition formerly appended to this writ, see SC 8/171/8550

For a related petition, because of which this writ may have been issued, see SC 8/171/8547

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous, vol. IV, 1-12 Ric II, (Public Record Office, 1957), pp.40-1 (no.60) (calendar of this and related documents, with references)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294414/

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