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Petitioners

Thomas de Fenwick, Prior of Hexham.

Name(s)

de Fenwick, Thomas

Addressees

King and council.

Occupation

Prior of Hexham

Nature of request

The Prior of Hexham recounts that in the last eyre of Cumberland before Cressingham and his companions the King brought his writ against the prior to recover the advowson of the church of Alston, which is in Tynedale in the county of Northumberland as appears by the King's charter made to Vipont, and the prior said in response that Alston was not in the county of Cumberland, but the said justices would not let him answer and put him on an inquest of the county of Cumbria when he has no knowledge of tenements in another county, so that the King recovered the advowson. The prior requests that he can show his right to the advowson and recover the same.1)

Nature of endorsement

He should have a writ of faciendo venire on record.2) Coram Rege.

Places mentioned

Northumberland

Hexham, [Northumberland]

Cumberland

Alston in Tynedale, Northumberland.

People mentioned

Hugh de Cressyngham (Cressingham), justice

Nicholas de Veepunt (Vipont), lord of Alston.

For another petition from the same petitioner on a related matter, see SC 8/307/15310

For another petition by the prior and convent on a related matter, see SC 8/319/E403

For another petition from the same petitioner, see SC 8/52/2553

For another petition from the prior and convent on a related matter, see SC 8/11/540

• Ancient Petitions Relating to Northumberland, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CLXXI, 1961), pp.45-46 (no.34) (full edition of petition)
• Calendar of Fine Rolls, vol. I, Edw I, 1272-1307, (Public Record Office, 1911), p.165 (1282 grant to Nicholas, son and heir of Robert de Veteri Ponte, of the manor of Alston, hereafter of the King's liberty of Tynedale)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. II, 1281-1292, (Public Record Office, 1893), p.485 (appointment of Cressingham as justice in eyre in Cumberland)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. III, 1292-1301, (Public Record Office, 1895), pp.1-4 (references to Cressingham at the eyre of Cumberland)