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Petitioners

Geoffrey de Cotes, clerk.

Name(s)

de Cotes, Geoffrey

Addressees

King and council.

Occupation

clerk

Nature of request

Geoffrey de Cotes states that as the King has recovered the right of presentation to the church of Fishlake against the Prior of Lewes, and he was instituted and inducted at the King's presentation, but that by the machinations of the Bishop of Lincoln and Chancellor of England and Peter Vaurelly, alien provisor, this judgment was repealed without process of law, the provisor was allowed to sue the effect of his provision, and Geoffrey was forced to resign his church through imprisonments and other duresses; notwithstanding the response given to a previous petition of Geoffrey's presented to the parliament at Northampton, and another to the parliament at Salisbury.

Nature of endorsement

He is to sue to have the writs brought before the council.The record and process of the judgment mentioned by the petition are to be brought before the council.

Places mentioned

Fishlake, [West Riding of Yorkshire]

Lewes, [Sussex]

Northampton, [Northamptonshire]

Yorkshire

Banbury prebend [in Lincoln cathedral]

Salisbury, [Wiltshire]

Westminster.

People mentioned

Prior of Lewes

[Edward II], King of England

[Henry Burghersh], Bishop of Lincoln, Chancellor of England

Peter Vaurelly (Vaurelli), alien provisor

Geoffrey Lescrope (le Scrope), justice

Adam de Limberge (Lymbergh), Keeper of the Privy Seal

[Henry of Lancaster], Earl of Lancaster

John de Beck

Henry de Edenstowe

Thomas de Baunburgh

Henry de Clyf.

For a related licence to Peter Vaurelly to prosecute, see SC 8/11/502

For copies of writs formerly enclosed with this petition see no.19 of C 266/8

For a related petition, see SC 8/11/503

• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. I, 1327-1330, (Public Record Office, 1891), p.334 (mandate to supersede the seizure and imprisonment of Peter Vaurelly for interfering in the King's presentation of the petitioner to the church of Fishlake, as the King has granted him permission to prosecute his suit in the ecclesiastical court)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.45a-46b (no.62) (full edition of later copy of original petition) and related writs
• The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rotuli Parliamentorum II, pp.31-51, no.62 (summary of references)