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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Geoffrey de Cotes, clerk. de Cotes Geoffrey King and council. clerk Geoffrey de Cotes...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/261/13012
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This record is about the Geoffrey de Cotes, clerk. de Cotes Geoffrey King and council. clerk Geoffrey de Cotes... dating from [1328-1329] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/261/13012
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1328-1329]
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Description (What the record is about)
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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 makes two requests:1) He states that the King recovered the right of presentation to the church of Fishlake against the Prior of Lewes, and presented Geoffrey to that church; and that Geoffrey was instituted and inducted on St Bartholomew's day last August, and in peaceful possession, until Peter de Vaurelly arrived with bulls from Avignon, claiming that the right of collation belonged to the pope, and is suing in various ways to disturb Geoffrey's possession and destroy the King's right, contrary to the King's prohibition in this matter. He requests a remedy.
- Nature of endorsement
- It is agreed by the council that in attachments in such cases for the King, the first writ is to be sent to the Sheriff making the attachment, ita quod eum habeas, etc.[Two previous endorsements are deleted.]
- Places mentioned
- Lewes, [Sussex]
- Fishlake, [West Riding of Yorkshire]
- Avignon, [Provence, France].
- People mentioned
- Geoffrey Lescrop (le Scrope), justice
- Prior of Lewes
- [Edward II], King of England
- Peter de Vaurelly.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Ascribed to 2 Edward III (25 January 1328-24 January 1329) in Rot. Parl. vol. II p.20a (no.19), and confirmed as belonging to that year by PROME, Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rotuli Parliamentorum II, pp. 13-30, no. 19. This is the earliest date consistent with the petitioner having been presented to the church of Fishlake by the King, and having been inducted the previous August.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
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- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.20a (no.19) (full edition of later copy of original petition)
- 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.13-30, no.19 (summary of references)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9516956/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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