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Details of SC 8/71/3509
Reference: SC 8/71/3509
Description:
Petitioners: Richard de Sayton.
Name(s): de Sayton, Richard
Addressees: King and council.
Nature of request: Sayton requests that a writ be sent to the bishop to proceed with the plea concerning his removal by Aske from the tenements given to his father and mother. He was granted a writ of formedon by the bishop of Durham, but the justices of the bishop stopped the plea as Aske suggested that it was contrary to the statute of Westminster II. He asks for regard to be given that writs of right and mort d'ancestor pleadable in the liberty have been lopped by statute.1)
Nature of endorsement: Coram rege et magno consilio.2) The petition of the commune is answered in this case that have prayed that the king will of his grace grant to the bishop that he be able to plead such writs, thus supposing that such writs not to be able to be pleaded in the diocese now.
Places mentioned: County Durham.
People mentioned: Bishop of Durham; Conan de Aske.
Note: The petition is difficult to date. Other petitions abound at this time complaining about the failure of legal procedures especially in relation to the discontinuance of the system of eyres throughout the county, and by extention in Durham, and of the inability to use certain writs in the county. These date to the period of vacancy between bishops Beaumont and Bury, and into Bury's pontificate (1333-4). While there is no evidence to date this petition conclusively to 1334, it does seem to fit the pattern of these other petitions (Cf. SC 8/44/2165; SC 8/74/3693; SC 8/206/10278; SC 8/311/15501; Fraser, Northern Petitions, pp.232-240).
Date: [? 1334]
Related material:

For another petition concerning the inability to use certain writs in Durham see SC 8/311/15515

For another petition concerning the inability to use certain writs in Durham see SC 8/206/10278

For another petition concerning the inability to use certain writs in Durham see SC 8/74/3693

For another petition concerning the inability to use certain writs in Durham see SC 8/44/2165

For another petition concerning the inability to use certain writs in Durham see SC 8/39/1935
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Parliamentary Petition 7183
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), pp.232-3 (no.170) (full edition of petition)

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