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? No Petitioner named [Response to SC 8/208/10385]It seems to the council that the...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/208/10385

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Reference
SC 8/208/10385
Date
[1327]
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
[Response to SC 8/208/10385]It seems to the council that the king send a writ to the Archbishop of Canterbury, rehearsing the matters in this petition and ordering him not to do or attempt anything in this matter to prejudice the king or the crown without consulting the king. And that a similar writ be sent to the chapter of Worcester.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Worcester, [Worcestershire].
People mentioned
[Walter Reynolds], Archbishop of Canterbury
Chapter of Worcester.
Note
This appears to form the council's response to the petition at SC 8/208/10384, and thus would seem to date to 11 November, the date given in the note to the king (SC 8/208/10383) which accompanied these two documents.
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 petition to which this forms the Council's response see SC 8/208/10384

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/C9333941/

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