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William Wydukynge. Wydukynge William King. Wydukynge requests that the chancellor...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/246/12270

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Reference
SC 8/246/12270
Date
[1350]
Description
Petitioners
William Wydukynge.
Name(s)
Wydukynge, William
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Wydukynge requests that the chancellor and Shareshull and his companions, justices make hasty fulfilment of justice and execution both of the false conspiracy of Peleryn and his people by distraint on their bodies according to the law for their false intrusion into the patronage of the church of Horncastle, and also of the judgment given for Wydukynge and his presentee.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Westminster
Horncastle, [Lincolnshire].
People mentioned
Hugh Peleryn (Pelegrini)
Bishop of Lincoln
John de Kyrkeby (Kirkby)
Thomas de le Walshe
William de Shareshull, justice.
Note
The petition dates to c. 1350 as the king ratified Peleryn's estate in the church of Horncastle on 18 March 1350 (CPR 1348-50, p.492).
Related material

For the secret seal warrant with which this petition was originally enclosed see no. 13 in C 81/1333

For a related petition, see SC 8/247/12303

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland. Papal Letters, vol. III, ed. W.H. Bliss and C. Johnson, (, 1897), pp.348-9 (reservation of the church to Pelegrini)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. VIII, 1348-1350, (Public Record Office, 1905), p.492 (ratification of the estate of Peleryn)
Record URL
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