Piers Deyvill. Deyvill Piers King and council. Piers Deyvill states that after the...

Petitioners

Piers Deyvill.

Name(s)

Deyvill, Piers

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

Piers Deyvill states that after the order of Knights Templars was dissolved, all its possessions within the king's allegiance were to revert to the lords of the fees of which they were held, and that when they were dissolved, the Templars held certain tenements in South Cave in fee, of the lordship of Piers' ancestors. However the king seized these tenements, but when he removed his hand Piers entered as other lords enter into their fees, and continued his seisin until Lord Mowbray ejected him by force. These tenements are now in the king's hand through the forfeiture of Lord Mowbray: Piers therefore requests that he might be reseised of them.

Nature of endorsement

Coram rege.Because the Hospitallers are suing by their petition to have the lands of the Templars, and this petition has not yet been answered, he should wait until etc.

Places mentioned

South Cave, [East Riding of Yorkshire].

People mentioned

Order of Knights Templar

[John Mowbray] Lord Mowbray

Order of Knights Hospitaller.

For a duplicate copy of the petition see SC 8/6/262

• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.401a, no.82 (full edition of original petition)
• The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rot. Parl. vol. I, pp.387-415, no.82 (summary of references)