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John de Eaglescliffe, Bishop of Llandaff. de Eaglescliffe John King and council....

Catalogue reference: SC 8/173/8609

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Reference
SC 8/173/8609
Date
[1328]
Description
Petitioners
John de Eaglescliffe, Bishop of Llandaff.
Name(s)
de Eaglescliffe, John
Addressees
King and council.
Occupation
Bishop of Llandaff
Nature of request
Eaglescliffe requests that he be acquitted of the obligation that he was forced to make for entry to his diocese during the time of the king's father. The late king by the abetment of Despenser demanded the obligation, and he has already been pardoned the sum by the present king.
Nature of endorsement
Because it is attested before the council that the king has pardoned him of his grace the 1000 marks, and has commanded that he have back the obligation, let him have letters of pardon on this in Chancery
Places mentioned
Llandaff diocese, [Wales].
People mentioned
Hugh le Despenser, the younger.
Note
The petition is dated to 1328 as the petition is published in Rot. Parl. II from a Hale manuscript which dated the petitions to the parliament held in 2 Edw. III (1328) (Rot. Parl. vol. II, p.21b (no.24)). Rees' dating range of 1323-8 is clearly wrong as the petition refers to the diocese being withheld from the petitioner by the king's father by the abetment of Despenser, so can be no earlier than early 1327. As the variations noted by Rees between the petition and the Rot. Parl. transcript can be explained by errors in the transcription, there is no reason to believe that the petition is not the same petition as found in Rot. Parl..
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), pp.290-1 (full summary of petition, but wrongly dated)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.21b (no.24) (full edition of later copy of original petition)
  • The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rotuli Parliamentorum II, pp.13-30, no.24 (summary of references)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294475/

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