Prior and convent of Montacute. King and lords of parliament. The Prior and convent...

Petitioners

Prior and convent of Montacute.

Addressees

King and lords of parliament.

Nature of request

The Prior and convent of Montacute state that they were given the manor of Tintinhull, with the church and hundred, by King Henry I, and were seised of it from that time until the Friday before the Assumption, in the tenth year of King Edward II, when a Richard Lovel and others, to Richard's use, entered the manor during a vacancy, and were given possession of it by the king's grant. The new prior complained to the king, who gave a commission to Hugh de Courtenay and others to inquire into the matter, and, if it proved true, to return the manor to the convent. The inquisition, held at Yeovil, found that it was true, and the manor was redelivered to the Prior and convent, and Richard, both then and later in parliament at York, released all right he had in the manor to the Prior and his successors. However, Richard Seymour, his kinsman and heir, now claims the manor by virtue of a fine made when Richard Lovel held it, and annulled by his release, and continues to sue, harassing the Prior and convent, who have had to spend the goods of their convent in the suit. They request that the king hear the case and grant them a writ of supersedeas omnino to the justices of the Common Bench.

Nature of endorsement

It is agreed by the king and lords in parliament that no writ of procedendo is to be granted to Richard Seymor in the plea mentioned in the petition, until the next parliament.

Places mentioned

Montacute, [Somerset]

Tintinhull, [Somerset]

Yevele (Yeovil), [Somerset]

Everwik (York).

People mentioned

Henry [I], King of England

Richard Lovel

Edward [II], King of England

Hugh de Courtenay

Richard Seymor (Seymour).

For transcript, see no.68 of PRO 31/7/109

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Ric II, vol. II, 1381-1385, (Public Record Office, 1920), pp.498-9 (order to the sheriff to give the Prior seisin of the manor, because of errors in the record and process between him and Richard Seymor); pp.535-6 (order to the sheriff to levy certain issues of the manor from Richard Seymor and pay them to the Prior); p.612 (memorandum that the rolls of the record and process in this case are among those for the Martinmas parliament of 8 Richard II.)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.181a-b (no.21) (full edition of original petition) & pp.172a-173b (transcription of related petition on parliament roll, with judicial process arising from it) & pp.186b-200b (transcription of related petition on parliament roll, with judicial process arising from it)