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Petitioners

Philip Darcy, knight.

Name(s)

Darcy, Philip

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

Philip Darcy states that the Prior of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem in England has sued a scire facias in the King's Bench against him, concerning the manors of Temple Hirst and Temple Newsam, concerning the ordinance made in parliament in the seventeenth year of Edward II's reign, concerning the lands of the Templars, to which Philip claimed that Edward III granted the manors to Mary de St Pol for term of life, with reversion to John Darcy, knight, and the heirs male of his body, and in default of heirs male to the king; and Philip is the son of John Darcy's son John. The Prior sued to have a writ of procedendo, and Philip produced a charter from Thomas le Archier, formerly Prior of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem in England, granting these manors, together with the manors of Denney, Strood and Faxfleet, to Edward II and his heirs. Philip requests that no writ of procedendo be granted to the Prior against this charter, but that the king might give the order to stay proceedings in the plea until the matters contained in the petition are fully made clear in parliament.

Nature of endorsement

This bill has been answered elsewhere; that is, on the roll of this parliament.

Places mentioned

Temple Hirst, [West Riding of Yorkshire]

Temple Newsam, [West Riding of Yorkshire]

Deneye (Denney), [Cambridgeshire]

Strode (Strood), [Kent]

Flaxflete (Faxfleet), [East Riding of Yorkshire].

People mentioned

[Robert Hales], Prior of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem in England

[Edward II], King of England

Edward [III], King of England

Mary de Seint Poul (Saint Pol), [Countess of Pembroke]

John Darcy, knight

John Darcy

Thomas le Archier, Prior of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem in England.

Another petition concerning the same lands, from Philip's son John, is SC 8/22/1089

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Ric II, vol. I, 1377-1381, (Public Record Office, 1914), pp.187-8 (order to sheriff of York to instruct Philip Darcy to appear before the king to show why these manors should not be seized into the king's hand and delivered to the prior)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. I, 1377-1381, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.444 (exemplification of the charter mentioned in this petition)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.78a-79a (transcription of petition on parliament roll, with judicial process following from petition)