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William Courtenay, Archbishop of Canterbury. Courtenay William King and council....

Catalogue reference: SC 8/215/10726

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Reference
SC 8/215/10726
Date
[1383]
Description
Petitioners
William Courtenay, Archbishop of Canterbury.
Name(s)
Courtenay, William
Addressees
King and council.
Occupation
Archbishop of Canterbury
Nature of request
William, archbishop of Canterbury recounts that he and the treasurer and council have come to terms concerning the issues of the temporalities of his archbishopric from the last vacancy, which were valued by Appeldon and Gosebourn and assigned by the King's council before the King's marriage. Now a writ has been delivered to the sheriff of Kent at the suit of the Queen ordering him to distrain the petitioner for payment of Queen's gold. The archbishop requests that he be discharged from paying Queen's gold and that the sheriff of Kent be sent a writ ordering him to cease execution.
Nature of endorsement
Let it be known that the subject of this bill was declared more fully in parliament before the King's justices and serjeants, and it was determined that for such sales or purchases made with the King's council of wardships, marriages, vacancies or other similar things, the queen should not have or demand her gold, nor have other queens demanded such in the past.
Places mentioned
Canterbury, [Kent]
Kent.
People mentioned
[John] Appeldon (Appleton), auditor of the Exchequer
[John] Gosebourn (Gosbourn), auditor of the Exchequer
[Anne of Bohemia], Queen of England.
Note
Dated on the guard to 1383, with reference to CCR 1381-5, p. 292, a 1383 writ of supersedeas omnino in accordance with this petition.
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, Ric II, vol. II, 1381-1385, (Public Record Office, 1920), p.292 (writ of supersedeas omnino in accordance with this petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9334282/

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