William Bateman, Bishop of Norwich. Bateman William King. Bishop of Norwich [Petition...

Petitioners

William Bateman, Bishop of Norwich.

Name(s)

Bateman, William

Addressees

King.

Occupation

Bishop of Norwich

Nature of request

[Petition in 2 parts:]1) Bateman requests that the record and process in two suits wherein judgment was made against the bishop be brought before the triers in parliament and if errors are found redress be made to him.2) He requests that he be restored to the liberties of view of Frankpledge and hustings in Lynn which was wrongly seized into the king's hand following an inquisition taken before Thorpe.1)

Nature of endorsement

The record and process should be brought into parliament to be examined for errors, and if there be any let them be redressed.2) The inquisition should be brought before the council in parliament.

Places mentioned

Bishop's Lynn (King's Lynn), [Norfolk].

People mentioned

Richard Froisell

Abbot and convent of Bury St Edmunds

William de Thorp (Thorpe).

For a petition by the same petitioner relating to part two of this petition, see SC 8/246/12272

For the decision by the council that the bishop of Norwich attend the next parliament for the discussion of the second part of his petition, see C 49/7/21

For another petition by the same petitioner on the same matter, see SC 8/239/11921

For a related petition, see SC 8/239/11920

For a duplicate of this petition, see SC 8/246/12274

• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. IX, 1350-1354, (Public Record Office, 1907), p.100 (staying of further proceedings in the suit between the bishop and the abbot and convent of Bury St Edmunds)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. VIII, 1348-1350, (Public Record Office, 1905), p.551 (restoration to the bishop, and grant that it should be held by the bishop and his successors for ever)
• Select Cases in the Court of King's Bench, vol. II, Edw I, Ed. G.O. Sayles, (Selden Society, vol. LVII, 1938), pp.cxxvii-viii (entry e) (full edition of duplicate of this petition)