Catalogue description Petitioners: William Bateman, Bishop of Norwich. Name(s): Bateman, William ...

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Details of SC 8/246/12272
Reference: SC 8/246/12272
Description:
Petitioners: William Bateman, Bishop of Norwich.
Name(s): Bateman, William
Addressees: King.
Occupation: Bishop of Norwich
Nature of request: Bateman requests that the king by his charter restore him to the liberty of leet and hustings of contracts, covenants and trespasses in Lynn with a confirmation of his predecessor's gift of the profits and amercements to the mayor and commonalty of Lynn for £40.
Nature of endorsement: [None].
Places mentioned: Bishop's Lynn (King's Lynn), [Norfolk].
People mentioned: Mayor and commonalty of Lynn; John de Ely (Salmon), Bishop of Norwich.
Note: The petition dates to 1350 as privy seal warrant was issued and the bishop was restored on 16 May 1350 (C 81/345/20991; CPR 1348-1350, pp.506-7, 551).
Date: [1350]
Related material:

For a petition by the same petitioner in part on the same matter, see SC 8/246/12275

For a petition by the same petitioner in part on the same matter, see SC 8/246/12274

For the privy seal warrant with which this petition was originally enclosed see no. 20991 in C 81/345
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. VIII, 1348-1350, (Public Record Office, 1905), pp.506-7, 551 (restoration to the bishop, and grant that it should be held by the bishop and his successors for ever)

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