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Prior and convent of King's Langley. King. The Prior and convent of King's Langley...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/20/991

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This record is about the Prior and convent of King's Langley. King. The Prior and convent of King's Langley... dating from [1388] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/20/991
Date
[1388]
Description
Petitioners
Prior and convent of King's Langley.
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
The Prior and convent of King's Langley state that they were founded by the king's ancestors and have hitherto received large sums of money annually in the Exchequer for their support. Edward III, to provide for their sustenance, purchased certain manors, lands and tenements, and enfeoffed, John of Gaunt and others, with them, to provide for their support. After his death they leased these lands to them for the term of forty years, until they could be amortized. Simon de Burley occupied these manors for a certain farm, then had them as his free tenement of Richard II's grant, so that a great part of the farm is in arrears. They request that these manors be granted to them and their successors forever, as fully as Juliana de Leybourne, Countess of Huntingdon, held them, notwithstanding the provisions of the Statute of Mortmain.
Nature of endorsement
They are to sue to the Council; and the king wishes that the Council should have power to do, and should do, justice to the supplicants on the matter comprised in the petition.
Places mentioned
Langeleye (King's Langley) [Hertfordshire]
Preston, [Kent]
Overlonde (Oversland), [Kent]
Wodlynge (Wadling), [Kent]
Packmanstone, [Kent]
Beaurepere (Beaurepair), [Kent]
Walderslade, [Kent]
Harrietsham, [Kent]
Ham, [Kent]
Elmstone, [Kent]
Goodnestone, [Kent]
Westgate (Westgate on Sea), [Kent]
Isle of Thanet, [Kent].
People mentioned
Edward [III], King of England
John [of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster]
Simon de Burley
Juliana de Leybourne, Countess of Huntingdon.
Note
Firmly dated by CPR 1385-9 p.532 (2 October 1388).
Related material

For transcript, see no.63 of PRO 31/7/109

A similar petition from the Abbot and convent of St Mary Graces is SC 8/20/989

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 5089
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. III, 1385-1389, (Public Record Office, 1900), p.539 (restitution to petitioners of the lands held by Simon de Burley)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.180b (no.19) (full edition of original petition)
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