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Petitioners

Hugh de Eversden, abbot of St Albans.

Name(s)

de Eversden, Hugh

Addressees

King.

Occupation

abbot of St Albans

Nature of request

[This petition is damaged.]The Abbot of St Albans makes two requests:1) He requests a writ to have brought into parliament or before the justices of the King's pleas the record and process of a suit held in the court of the Bishop of Durham between [missing], plaintiff, and the Abbot concerning the church of High Coniscliffe, which the Abbot held peacefully until Anthony, late Bishop of Durham, wrongly received Walter de Clyfford, presented by [missing], lord of High Coniscliffe, in prejudice of the King and to the disinheritance of the Abbot. The lord of High Coniscliffe has since made another presentation. He requests a remedy so that the King does not lose his right and so that the Abbot is not disinherited.2) He requests a writ to the Bishop of Durham, not to give the church of High Coniscliffe away until the King's right has been tried.

Nature of endorsement

[None]

Places mentioned

St Albans, [Hertfordshire]

Durham bishopric

Overconsclyff (High Coniscliffe), [County Durham].

People mentioned

Walter de Clyfford (Clifford)

[Richard Kellaw], Bishop of Durham

Anthony [Bek], Bishop of Durham

Edward [I], King of England

Roger, Abbot of St Albans.

For another petition by the same petitioner, see SC 8/193/9647

• Calendar of Chancery Warrants, 1244-1326, (Public Record Office, 1927), p.409 (order to do what is reasonable and gracious on this matter)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. II, 1313-1317, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.257 (presentation of John de Croft to the church of High Coniscliffe, in the King's gift because of the voidance of the Abbey of St Albans during the time of the late King) & p.353 (licence for the alienation in mortmain of the church of High Coniscliffe by the Abbot and convent of St Albans to the Bishop of Durham)