Nicholas de Wellebourn (Welleburn), clerk. de Wellebourn (Welleburn) Nicholas King...

Petitioners

Nicholas de Wellebourn (Welleburn), clerk.

Name(s)

de Wellebourn (Welleburn), Nicholas

Addressees

King and council.

Occupation

clerk

Nature of request

[This petition is damaged] Nicholas de Wellebourn, clerk, states that he was wrongly expelled from the church of Whitburn in the Bishopric of Durham by one John de Snaynton, but them recovered the church, and purchased a writ of the King to the Bishop of Durham to protect him in it. Nevertheless, John has several times threatened his possession of the church with force and arms, but the Bishop and his ministers have refused to arrest or attach him. By the maintenance of Michael de Harcla, he has also procured false suits against him, without his knowledge, attacked him and his people, and threatened his advocate. He requests a remedy.

Nature of endorsement

[None]

Places mentioned

Whitburn, [County Durham]

Durham bishopric

London

Darlington, [County Durham]

York.

People mentioned

John de Snaynton (Sneyton)

Richard [Kellaw], Bishop of Durham

Michael de Harcla

Roger de Nortburgh (Northburgh).

For a related petition from John de Snaynton, see SC 8/74/3695

For a related petition from the same petitioner, see SC 8/193/9609

• Calendar of Chancery Warrants, 1244-1326, (Public Record Office, 1927), p.584 (mandate to the Chancellor to hear the petitioner and provide him with a remedy)
• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. II, 1313-1318, (Public Record Office, 1893), p.471 (order that letters from the King to show favour to Nicholas de Wellebourn in this matter should not hinder John de Snaynton's appeal) & p.483 (inhibition to the Dean and chapter of York, forbidding them to annul the presentation of Nicholas de Wellebourn to the church of Whitburn in favour of John de Snaynton)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. II, 1313-1317, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.556 (writ of presentation of Nicholas de Wellebourn to the church of Whitburn)
• Registrum Palatinum Dunelmense, vol. II: The Register of Richard de Kellawe, Lord Palatine and Bishop of Durham, 1311-1316, Ed. T.D. Hardy, (Rolls Series, vol. LXII, part 2, 1873), pp.810-11 (grant to Snayton of the fruits and profits of the church of Whitburn)