Abbot and convent of Quarr King and council The abbot and convent show that they...

Petitioners

Abbot and convent of Quarr

Addressees

King and council

Nature of request

The abbot and convent show that they had the gift of the manor of Whitefield from Hugh de Whitvill, and had this gift confirmed by the earl of Devon and Henry II. John de Weyvill ousted them from this, and his son alienated it. The abbot has sued by petition to the king and his council in diverse councils and parliaments by which an inquisition was ordered and taken, but the justices did not want to proceed to judgement, so that the abbot requests a writ ordering William Thorp and his companions, before whom the plea is pending that when they have viewed the record and process they go to final judgement.

Nature of endorsement

He should state in whose hand the manor is.

Places mentioned

Isle of Wight, [Hampshire]

Whitfeld (Whitefield), [Isle of Wight, Hampshire]

People mentioned

Hugh de Whitvill

Richard [de Reviers], Earl of Devon, Lord of the Isle of Wight

Henry II, King of England

John de Wyvill (Weyvill)

Geoffrey Scrope (le Scrope), justice

William de Thorp (Thorpe), justice.

For a petition by Roger Lysewy concerning the manor see SC 8/11/535

For a duplicate of the Lysewy petition differently endorsed see SC 8/11/536

For an earlier petition by the abbot relating to the manor see SC 8/11/526

For a related document see SC 8/250/12486

• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.188b (no.53) (full edition of a later copy 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, Rotuli Parliamentorum II, pp. 70-2, no. 1 (summary of references to related petition), & parliament of January-February 1348, appendix, no. 55 (summary of this petition)