Close Rolls, Richard II: February 1392

Calendar of Close Rolls, Richard II: Volume 4, 1389-1392. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1922.

'Close Rolls, Richard II: February 1392', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Richard II: Volume 4, 1389-1392, (London, 1922) pp. 427. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/ric2/vol4/p427 [accessed 19 April 2024]

February 1392



Feb. 13. Westminster.	To J. bishop of Ely, and to his official and commissaries whatsoever for the time being. Prohibition against sending on inhibitions and citations to the chancellor of the university of Cantebrigge for the time being or to his representatives, in contempt of the king, in breach of liberties of the university, and to the disturbance of the cognisance and execution of pleas to them granted by the king, so behaving that no second loud complaint come to the king's ears; as of his desire for increase of the clergy in the realm the king granted by charter that the chancellor and his successors and their representatives shall have cognisance of all manner of personal pleas, as well of debt, account, contract and tort as of trespass against the peace and misprision whatsoever within the town and suburbs of Cantebrigge not amounting to mayhem or felony, where one of the parties shall be a master, a scholar, a scholar's servant or a public minister of the university, holding the same wheresoever they please within the town and suburbs, and shall execute the same, making inquisition concerning trespasses by virtue of their office and at suit of a party, and that justices appointed to hold pleas before the king, justices of the Bench and other judges whatsoever shall whether the king be present or absent make them allowance of all such pleas, no justice or judge, sheriff, mayor, bailiff or minister meddling therein, nor setting a party to answer before themselves, but such party shall be justified and punished only before the chancellor etc.; but the bishop is from time to time sending to the chancellor and his representatives inhibitions and citations to prevent them from executing or taking cognisance of pleas, although one of the parties be a master etc. as aforesaid; and the king's will is that the said liberties be kept unbroken.