Thomas Arundel, Bishop of Ely. Arundel Thomas King and council. Ely, [Cambridgeshire]...

Petitioners

Thomas Arundel, Bishop of Ely.

Name(s)

Arundel, Thomas

Addressees

King and council.

Places mentioned

Ely, [Cambridgeshire]

Cambridgeshire

Huntingdonshire

Suffolk

Norfolk.

Nature of request

Thomas, bishop of Ely requests remedy since by charters of the King and his progenitors his predecessors were granted diverse franchises including all forfeitures on the Isle of Ely and elsewhere in their lordship, but recently some of the bishop's tenants and men were sentenced to death before the King's justices, because of which the escheators of Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, Suffolk and Norfolk seized their goods and chattels, contrary to the said charters. The petitioner also requests that writs be granted to the escheators to remove their hands and to the barons of the Exchequer to surcease in this matter.

Nature of endorsement

This petition should be sent to the chancellor and writs directed to the said barons and escheators to suffer and leave in peace the things contained in this petition until the next parliament.

For a related petition from the same petitioner see SC 8/109/5414

For a related petition see SC 8/109/5411

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Ric II, vol. II, 1381-1385, (Public Record Office, 1920), p.42 (order to suffer the Earl of Arundel to take the goods and chattels of men of the Isle of Ely, upon the bishop's petition) & p.182 (order to suffer the Earl of Arundel to take goods and chattels of men of bishopric of Ely convicted of treasons) & p.255 (order to suffer the Earl of Arundel to take goods and chattels of men of bishopric of Ely convicted of treasons)
• Calendar of Fine Rolls, vol. IX, Ric II, 1377-1383, (Public Record Office, 1927), p.265 (commission of the keeping of all lands and goods of any men convicted of treason in the bishopric, in response to this petition)