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Peter de Shenedon, dean of the free chapel of Our Lady of Shrewsbury. de Shenedon...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/241/12027

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Reference
SC 8/241/12027
Date
[1311]
Description
Petitioners
Peter de Shenedon, dean of the free chapel of Our Lady of Shrewsbury.
Name(s)
de Shenedon, Peter
Addressees
King.
Occupation
dean of the free chapel of Our Lady of Shrewsbury
Nature of request
[Petition in 2 parts:]1) Shenedon requests remedy and will command the prior of Kenilworth to cease his grievances that he has made to the dean namely giving a prebend to Roger de Lodelawe, which Shenedon is unable to challenge because of the prior's power and because of his friends.2) Shenedon requests that the king will chasten the prior of Kenilworth who has, in contempt of the king, suspended the free chapel and excommunicated the dean's proctor, and also the archdeacon of Shropshire who the prior appointed on commission against the free chapel, and also the foreign delegate and John Lodelawe.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Shrewsbury, [Shropshire].
People mentioned
[Robert de Salle], Prior of Kenilworth
Roger Lodelawe, son of John Lodelawe
Countess of Cornwall
Richard Bernard of Shrewsbury, Archdeacon of Shropshire
Robert Tancant, foreign delegate
John Lodelawe, father of Roger Lodelawe and burgess.
Note
The petition dates to 1311 as the privy seal warrant in response to the petition dates to 27 February 1311 (CCW 1244-1326, p.345).
Related material

For the privy seal warrant in which this petition was enclosed, see no.1740 in C 81/75

For the document with which this petition and C 81/75/1740 were originally formerly enclosed, see no. 1950 in C 81/77

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Chancery Warrants, 1244-1326, (Public Record Office, 1927), p.345 (mandate to make a writ to the sheriff of Shropshire)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9439630/

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