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Richard Kellaw, Bishop of Durham. Kellaw Richard King. Durham liberty Lincoln, [Lincolnshire]...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/321/E456

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Reference
SC 8/321/E456
Date
[1316]
Description
Petitioners
Richard Kellaw, Bishop of Durham.
Name(s)
Kellaw, Richard
Addressees
King.
Places mentioned
Durham liberty
Lincoln, [Lincolnshire]
Westminster.
Nature of request
The bishop requests an order to the council to hear his petitions and do right to him. He has petitioned concerning various oppressions and grievances made against the estate and liberty of the church of St Cuthbert of Durham, which petitions he delivered to the parliament at Lincoln, and which were adjourned to be answered at Westminster in the quindene of Easter.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Note
The petition is dated to 1316 as the petition appears to be a petition presented to the Easter parliament held in 1316 at Westminster requesting, as the petition makes clear, that the petitions submitted by the petitioner to the preceding Lincoln parliament be answered as was stated in the adjournment of the petitions to the Westminster parliament.
Related material

For the petition of the same petitioner to the Lincoln parliament mentioned here see SC 8/3/120A

For a related petition by Bishop Beaumont, see SC 8/158/7878

For a later petition by the bishop's executors on the same matter see SC 8/44/2168

For a later related petition by the earl of Warwick and Robert de Clifford, see SC 8/149/7437

For a copy of Henry III's charter concerning the manor of Greatham, formerly attached to SC 8/149/7437, see SC 8/149/7438

For a later related petition by Bishop Beaumont, see SC 8/108/5381

For a later related petition by Bishop Bury, see SC 8/44/2166

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), p.246 (no.181) (full edition of petition)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.362a-4b (no.9) (petition to the Lincoln parliament with ensuing proceedings)
Record URL
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