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Wulstan Bransford, Bishop-elect of Worcester. Bransford Wulstan King and Council....

Catalogue reference: SC 8/208/10384

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Reference
SC 8/208/10384
Date
[1327]
Description
Petitioners
Wulstan Bransford, Bishop-elect of Worcester.
Name(s)
Bransford, Wulstan
Addressees
King and Council.
Occupation
Bishop-elect of Worcester
Nature of request
The petitioner [not specified, but presumably Bransford] recounts how the Prior and chapter of Worcester were granted licence to elect a successor to Bishop Thomas, which they duly did. This was confirmed by the king and the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the king received the bishop-elect's fealty and restored the temporalities. However, the Archbishop and chapter have now received a bull and letters from Rome to obstruct this election, and the petitioner therefore requests that the king order the Archbishop and the Chapter that they should not obey any such orders without the agreement of the king, since the bishop-elect has been confirmed in his temporalities and should not be ousted.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Worcester, [Worcestershire]
Rome, [Italy].
People mentioned
Thomas [Cobham], Bishop of Worcester
Prior and Chapter of Worcester
[Walter Reynolds], Archbishop of Canterbury.
Note
Orders to consecrate Bransford were issued on 17 November 1327 (the day after the death of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Walter Reynolds), seemingly in response to this petition. The temporalities of Worcester were restored to Bransford on 8 October 1327, suggesting that the petition itself was submitted between these two dates, a date seemingly confirmed by the document at SC 8/208/10383, a memorandum noting that council had given its advice, dated 11 November. The petitioner, although unspecified, is presumably either Bransford himself or someone on his behalf.
Related material

For a related note of process to the king, seemingly formerly attached to these two documents, see SC 8/208/10383

For the Council's response to this petition see SC 8/208/10385

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. I, 1327-1330, (Public Record Office, 1896), pp.238-239 (orders to the prior and convent of Canterbury to consecrate Bransford as bishop of Worcester, which the late archbishop has refused, and to them and the sub-prior and chapter of Worcester prohibiting them from permitting any disturbance of the king's rights in this matter)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9333940/

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