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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Lewis Coychurch, Archdeacon of Lewes. Coychurch Lewis King. Archdeacon of Lewes Coychurch...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/231/11534
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This record is about the Lewis Coychurch, Archdeacon of Lewes. Coychurch Lewis King. Archdeacon of Lewes Coychurch... dating from [1432] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/231/11534
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1432]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Lewis Coychurch, Archdeacon of Lewes.
- Name(s)
- Coychurch, Lewis
- Addressees
- King.
- Occupation
- Archdeacon of Lewes
- Nature of request
- Coychurch requests remedy as he and his predecessors as archdeacons have possessed all manner of ordinary jurisdiction that pertains to their office in all the parish churches, prebends and other benefices of the church and other places in the archdeaconry extending to visitations, corrections of crimes, cognisance of causes and inductions of persons admitted by the bishop, but in the time of Edward III it was claimed that the chapel of Hastings with its prebends was a royal free chapel, which it is not, and Coychurch and his predecessors have been kept out of their rightful jurisdiction by royal prohibition.
- Nature of endorsement
- The chancellor will do right after the process of law.
- Places mentioned
- Archdeaconry of Lewes
- Hastings, [Sussex]
- Westminster
- Salehurst Prebend, [Sussex].
- People mentioned
- John Branktre
- John Blaunchard
- John Norton
- Abbot of Robertisbridge
- Abbot of Battle
- John Kyngeton (Kington).
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1432 as a commission was issued to examine the complaint on 1 December 1432 (CPR 1429-36, p.274).
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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)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen VI, vol. II, 1429-1436, (Public Record Office, 1907), p.274 (commission to examine the matter)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9335093/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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