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? No Petitioner named Letter of Stratford requesting that lay power be removed from...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/269/13417

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Reference
SC 8/269/13417
Date
1335
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Letter of Stratford requesting that lay power be removed from the priory of Haugham, as Nicholas de Hamars has been restored to the priory, of which he was despoiled, after a case in the Archbishop's court against Valle, Sisy and St German, but it is still occupied by lay power, preventing the Archbishop form exercising his spiritual office there.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Haugham Priory, [Lincolnshire]
St Sever, [Normandy, France], Coutances, [Normandy, France]
York.
People mentioned
John [Stratford], Archbishop of Canterbury
Edward III, King of England
Nicholas de Hamars, Prior of Haugham
Martin de Valle, claiming to be a monk of St Sever
John de Sisy, claiming to be a monk of St Sever
Nicholas de Sancto Germano (St German), claiming to be a monk of St Sever.
Note
The petition is dated in its dating clause to the Ides of August 1335 (13 August).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517364/

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