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? No Petitioner named Letter to Edward I from Godfrey, Bishop of Worcester, complaining...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/236/11766

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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Letter to Edward I from Godfrey, Bishop of Worcester, complaining... dating from 1286 in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/236/11766
Date
1286
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Letter to Edward I from Godfrey, Bishop of Worcester, complaining that certain lay people have occupied the church of Grafton Flyford with force and arms, to the prejudice of ecclesiastical liberty and the harm of Richard de Salso Marisco, rector of that church, and asking the King to order the Sheriff of Worcestershire to remove this lay force.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Grafton under Flavel (Grafton Flyford), Worcestershire
Worcester diocese
Weston Subedge, [Gloucestershire].
People mentioned
Edward [I], King of England
Godfrey [Giffard], Bishop of Worcester
Richard de Salso Marisco (Saltmarsh), rector of Grafton Flyford.
Note
Letter dated 8 days before the Kalends of August (25 July) 1286.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9335325/

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