Matthew de Mymmelonde, Prior of Plympton. de Mymmelonde Matthew King and council....

Petitioners

Matthew de Mymmelonde, Prior of Plympton.

Name(s)

de Mymmelonde, Matthew

Addressees

King and council.

Occupation

Prior of Plympton

Nature of request

The prior of Plympton states that he and his predecessors had two carucates of land and a hundred shillings of rent in St Kew in Cornwall, together with the church of the same place, in pure and perpetual alms, of the gift of William Warwast, formerly bishop of Exeter, and confirmation of Henry II, without rendering any service for this, until certain ignorant people presented before John de Berewyk and his companions, in the thirtieth year of the king's reign, that the lands, rent and church had been given to them to support two canons to perform divine service, give alms to the poor and provide a hostel for pilgrims and others there, by King Edgar. He claims that this cannot be true, as Plympton was founded in the reign of Henry I. Since then they have received nothing from these lands etc. He requests that they might be able to hold them according to their charters, and as they always have done.

Nature of endorsement

They are to have a writ in Chancery to John de Berewyk, to have the record and process of the last Eyre in Cornwall brought before the treasurer and barons of the exchequer, and when the process and charters have been examined, they are to do to them as ought to be done.

Places mentioned

Plympton, [Devon]

Lanouhouseynt or Landoho (St Kew), Cornwall

Exeter, [Devon].

People mentioned

William Warwast (Warelwast), formerly bishop of Exeter

Henry II, King of England

John de Berewyk (Berwick)

Edgar, King of England

Henry I, king of England.

For transcript, see p.115 of PRO 31/7/93

• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. IV, 1301-1307, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.512 (grant to prior and convent to have a secular vicar and chaplain at the church of Landoho instead of two canons, it having been found that they were obliged to provide these services)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.461a, no.5 (full edition of original petition)