Prior of Hexham. King and council. Prior of Hexham The prior of Hexham requests that...

Petitioners

Prior of Hexham.

Addressees

King and council.

Occupation

Prior of Hexham

Nature of request

The prior of Hexham requests that the king will command that it be enquired of whether the church of Alston in Northumberland or Cumberland and according to what is found he will make his will. In the eyre before Cressingham and his companions they brought a writ of right against the prior for the church to which the prior answered by way of exception that he should not answer because the church was in Northumberland and not in Cumberland. The justices would not allow this and the king recovered the advowson. The prior has petitioned on this and the record has been searched and no record of his exception found.

Nature of endorsement

Coram toto consilio.What has not been done at other times, the king does not wish to do anything new, because the record of the justice was not annulled by inquisition or petition.

Places mentioned

Cumberland

Alston, [Cumberland].

People mentioned

Hugh de Cressingham, justice in eyre in the county of Cumberland

Roger le Brabanzoun (Brabazon).

For another petition from the same prior concerning the appropriation of Alston church, see SC 8/307/15310

For another petition from the petitioners relating to Alston and perhaps immediately preceding this petition, see SC 8/265/13226

For another petition from the petitioners relating to Alston, see SC 8/319/E403

For another petition from the prior seeking financial aid during the dispersion, see SC 8/52/2553

• Ancient Petitions Relating to Northumberland, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CLXXI, 1961), p.46 (no.35) (full edition of petition)
• 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)