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Richard Gravesend, Bishop of London. Gravesend Richard King and council. Bishop of...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/316/E213

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Reference
SC 8/316/E213
Date
[1302]
Description
Petitioners
Richard Gravesend, Bishop of London.
Name(s)
Gravesend, Richard
Addressees
King and council.
Occupation
Bishop of London
Nature of request
Gravesend requests the delivery of the keeping and sequester of the church of Hillingdon as his predecessors have had as the keeper of the bishopric of Worcester during its voidance has taken it into the king's hand, a previous bishop of Worcester having appropriated that church.
Nature of endorsement
To the Exchequer and let it be considered there of the appropriation of churches by bishops and abbots in similar cases in what state they remain in time of vacancies, and certify the king in the next parliament if it be as it is petitioned.
Places mentioned
Hillingdon, [Middlesex]
Uxbridge, [Middlesex].
People mentioned
Walter de Cauntelou (Cantilupe), Bishop of Worcester
Godfrey [Giffard], Bishop of Norwich.
Note
The petition is dated to 1302 as the petition belongs to an original file of petitions returned to the Exchequer from the summer parliament of 1302. For a confirmation of this dating, see SC 8/314/E107.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
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), 1302, summer parliament, appendix, petitions belonging to this parliament and not otherwise recorded, no.2 (summary of this file)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9529265/

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