Catalogue description Petitioners: Walter de Totyngtone (Tottington), monk of Bury St Edmunds. Name(s): ...

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Details of SC 8/20/984
Reference: SC 8/20/984
Description:
Petitioners: Walter de Totyngtone (Tottington), monk of Bury St Edmunds.
Name(s): de Totyngtone (Tottington), Walter
Addressees: King and council in parliament.
Occupation: monk of Bury St Edmunds
Nature of request: Walter de Totyngtone, monk of Bury St Edmunds requests exemption from liability to any proceedings that may ensue as a result of the burning, during the insurrection (of 1381), of records relating to his indictment in the King's Bench concerning a papal provision.
Nature of endorsement: The king has granted the supplicant a charter of pardon for all things contained in the indictment of which this petition makes mention, concerning the matter of the pope's appointee.
Places mentioned: Bury (Bury St Edmunds), [Suffolk]; Hennow (Henhowe Heath), [Suffolk].
People mentioned: John de Cavendissh (Cavendish); Edmund Heryng (Herring), officer of the King's Bench.
Note: Securely dated to the parliament of October-December 1385 by reference to CPR 1385-9, p.100.
Date: [1385]
Related material:

Another petition from the same petitioner is SC 8/20/983

For a related petition, see SC 8/20/972

For a related petition, see SC 8/20/971

For a related petition, see SC 8/20/968

Another petition concerning the pope's appointee is SC 8/20/967

For transcript, see no.81 of PRO 31/7/109
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Parliamentary Petition 8026
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. III, 1385-1389, (Public Record Office, 1900), p.100 (pardon arising from the petition)

Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.178a (no.12) (full edition of original petition)

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