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Prior of Butley. King and council. Prior of Butley The prior of Butley recounts that...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/263/13108
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/263/13108
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? 1334]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Prior of Butley.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Occupation
- Prior of Butley
- Nature of request
- The prior of Butley recounts that Dedham presented Fraunceys to the church of Dedham in the diocese of London, which church the prior and his convent have held to their own use for over twenty years, and the prior, not knowing the presentment to be false, approved of Dedham's presentee, but the bishop refused to admit him. Whereupon Fraunceys appealed to the Court of Rome, where he has been for a long time, and now that his process against the bishop has been refused, he has sued the prior in the same court for the patronage and possession of the said church. And because a writ of prohibition to the party is worthless while he remains at the Court of Rome and has nothing in England, the prior requests that the King grant his letters to the Pope that those things which concern his rights and laws should be pleaded in England and that the Pope should not allow them to be pleaded before him.
- Nature of endorsement
- It should go to the King.
- Places mentioned
- Butley, [Suffolk]
- Bildeston, [Suffolk]
- Dedham, [Essex]
- London
- Rome, [Italy].
- People mentioned
- Gilbert de Dedham
- [Nicholas Fraunceys of Bildeston, chaplain.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated on the guard to? 1334, since this is the date of the parliament to which it belongs (Rot. Parl. Vol. II, p. 82). Alexander de Stratford was prior of Butley 1332-4 and Matthew de Pakenham 1334-53.
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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)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.82a (no.39) (edition of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517052/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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