Close Rolls, Richard II: January 1398 | British History Online

Calendar of Close Rolls, Richard II: Volume 6, 1396-1399. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1927.

'Close Rolls, Richard II: January 1398', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Richard II: Volume 6, 1396-1399, (London, 1927) pp. 242. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/ric2/vol6/p242 [accessed 24 April 2024]

January 1398



Jan. 14. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Bedford. Order to give notice to John bishop of Lincoln to be in chancery in the quinzaine of Easter next in order to shew cause wherefore there ought not to be a stay pending the appeal of William Frary clerke of Langeforde, writ of supersedeas, and order by mainprise of Hugh Brymham clerk, William Frye of Devon, John Risyngdoun of Middlesex and John Piers of London 'taillour' to set the appellant free, if taken; as at the bishop's request, signifying that by his authority as ordinary the appellant was excommunicated for contumacy, not willing to be justified by censure of the church, the king ordered the sheriff to justify him by his body until he should content holy church for his contempt and wrongdoing; but he has appealed to the court of Canterbury, and is effectually prosecuting his appeal as he says; and the said Hugh and the others have mainperned in chancery to have him there at the aforesaid day, and that he shall so prosecute his appeal.