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Petitioners

Richard de Hoton, Prior of Durham.

Name(s)

de Hoton, Richard

Addressees

King.

Occupation

Prior of Durham

Nature of request

The Prior of Durham makes two requests.1) He requests remedy regarding damages awarded before Ormesby and Gildeford while the bishopric of Durham was in the king's hands, which the Bishop's officials are now unwilling to levy.2) He requests remedy regarding the recovery of beasts and other goods of his house, which were removed by Henry de Lusceby, who intruded as prior, and are held at Norham Castle. He has sued to recover them before the sheriff, but was told that the king's officials cannot enter without special warrant.

Nature of endorsement

[None]

Places mentioned

Durham, [County Durham]

Durham bishopric

Norham, [Northumberland].

People mentioned

William de Ormesby

Henry de Gildeford (Guildford)

[Anthony Bek], Bishop of Durham

Henry de Lusceby (Lusby).

For the record of Ormesby and Giledford's assizes in Durham in 1302-3, see JUST 1/223

For the chancery warrant with which this petition was apparently formerly enclosed see no.4248 of C 81/42

• Calendar of Chancery Warrants, 1244-1326, (Public Record Office, 1927), p.204 (calendar of warrant)
• Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), pp.243-4 (no.178) (full edition and summary of petition)