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Canons of St John's, Beverley. King and council. Due remedy is requested so that...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/173/8639
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This record is about the Canons of St John's, Beverley. King and council. Due remedy is requested so that... dating from 1381 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 8/173/8639
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1381
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Canons of St John's, Beverley.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Due remedy is requested so that the charges, works of charity that ought to be performed and the benefice be saved without waste as a dispute has arisen between Wendlyngburgh and Mansfield as to who holds the office of provost, as Mansfield has wasted the lands and tenements of the church to maintain the quarrel. They request writs of prohibition to the archbishop and Mansfield, and a writ to the chapter not to allow any damage to be done to the damage of the church. They request the income of the provost be saved until the matter is discussed, and letters to the executors of Thoresby as are reasonable in this case.
- Nature of endorsement
- It is assented by the council, 1 February 4 [Ric. II], in the presence of various lords [named] that the things comprised in the petition be done under the great seal for the reasons contained within the petition.
- Places mentioned
- Beverley, [East Riding of Yorkshire].
- People mentioned
- John de Wendlyngburgh, the younger, clerk
- Robert de Mansfield, clerk
- John de Thoresby, late provost of Beverley
- [John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster, king of Castile and Leon] lord of Spain
- [William of Wykeham], bishop of Winchester
- [Edmund of Langley], earl of Cambridge
- [Richard Fitz Alan], earl of Arundel
- [William de Ufford], earl of Suffolk
- [Hugh de Stafford], earl of Stafford
- [Henry de Percy], earl of Northumberland.
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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, Ric II, vol. I, 1377-1381, (Public Record Office, 1914), pp.431, 442 (order not to allow the lands and goods of the church to be diminished by or at the will of the claimants to the office of provost)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294505/
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