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John Excestr' (Exeter), clerk presented by the king to Great Stoke. Excestr' (Exeter)...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/346/E1407

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Reference
SC 8/346/E1407
Date
[c. 1381]
Description
Petitioners
John Excestr' (Exeter), clerk presented by the king to Great Stoke.
Name(s)
Excestr' (Exeter), John
Addressees
Council.
Nature of request
Excestr' requests that the king's right in the church of Great Stoke, and that a petition from the prior of Charterhouse not be accepted. The king presented Excestr' to the church of Great Staughton, the advowson having been forfeited to the king's grandfather because of various wrongs done by Cretyng and Lisle [fully detailed]. The prior of Charterhouse has managed, by evil suggestions, to obtain a grant of land and the advowson at Great Stoke, and is seeking to have the letters patent of the petitioner repealed by petition.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Great Staughton, Huntingdonshire.
People mentioned
William Otteforde, escheator
Edmund Cretyng, knight
John Byndon
Thomas de Lile (Lisle), late bishop of Ely
Archbishop of Canterbury
Prior of Charterhouse near London
John Colvile (Colville)
[William Courtenay], bishop of London, now archbishop of Canterbury
Richard Wermyngton, clerk
Thomas de Welle.
Note
The petition is dated to c. 1381 because the petition refers to a grant of 2 acres of land and the advowson of Great Staughton to the prior of Charterhouse, and to the bishop of London being then archbishop of Canterbury, and these events occurred on 18 August and 23 October 1381 respectively (CPR 1381-5, p. 37, 48).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. II, 1381-1385, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.37 (grant of the land and advowson to the prior of Charterhouse) & p.48 (restoration of the temporalities to William Courtenay, late bishop of London, translated to Canterbury)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9736831/

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