Petition from Walter de Totyngtone, monk, concerning the burning of documents during the rising
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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. Response: 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.
