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John de Dodeford, Prior of St Frideswide in Oxford. de Dodeford John King and council....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/215/10740
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/215/10740
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1378]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John de Dodeford, Prior of St Frideswide in Oxford.
- Name(s)
- de Dodeford, John
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Occupation
- Prior of St Frideswide in Oxford
- Nature of request
- Dodeford recounts that he was elected by the convent of the priory of St Frideswide with royal assent, confirmed by the bishop of Lincoln and received his temporalities from the King. He is now in London as a result of false indictments made against him, while certain canons of his house have ordained Wallingford as prior, are wasting food and other things there and are holding the priory like a fortress or castle with armed men and archers. The petitioner requests that a commission be sent to remove the forces at the priory, to restore the petitioner and to punish the rebellious canons, and that writs be sent forbidding the mayor, bailiffs and men of Oxford to aid and abet the rebels.
- Nature of endorsement
- Bishop of Hereford; Chancellor of Oxford University; Malyns; Stonere; mayor and bailiffs of Oxford; Hereford.
- Places mentioned
- Oxford, [Oxfordshire]
- Lincoln, [Lincolnshire]
- London
- Hereford, [Herefordshire].
- People mentioned
- [John Buckingham], Bishop of Lincoln
- John de Walyngford (Wallingford), monk
- [John Gilbert], Bishop of Hereford
- [Adam de Toneworth], chancellor of Oxford University
- Reginald Malyns, knight
- Edward Stonere, sheriff of Oxford
- John [Gybbes], mayor of Oxford
- bailiffs of Oxford
- John Hereford, King's sergeant.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated on the guard to 1378, with reference to CPR 1377-81, p. 302, a 1378 commission to investigate the priory in accordance with this petition, and p. 304, a 1378 commission to arrest the offenders in accordance with this petition.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
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- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. I, 1377-1381, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.302 (commission to investigate the priory in accordance with this petition) & p.304 (commission to arrest the offenders in accordance with this petition)
- Parliamentary Petitions Relating to Oxford, Oxford Historical Society, vol. XXXII, Ed. L. Toulmin Smith, (Oxford Historical Society, 1896), p.143 (full translation of the petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9334296/
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