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Petitioners

John Darcy, knight.

Name(s)

Darcy, John

Addressees

Commons of parliament.

Nature of request

John Darcy, knight, asks the commons to ask the king that a long-running dispute between his family and the Order of St John of Jerusalem in England, concerning the manors of Temple Hirst and Temple Newsam, formerly belonging to the Templars and given to his grandfather by Edward III, in the seventh year of his reign, might be determined in parliament, as great wrongs could come about if it was tried by inquest, and so that the evidence which he has shown, for the king's right and his own, might be fully made clear before all the lords of the present parliament.

Nature of endorsement

The king has delivered this petition to the Chancellor of England, so that he, calling to himself in Chancery the Justices, and having heard the parties mentioned in this petition, might examine the matter fully, and have a report on it sent back to the king.

Places mentioned

Temple Hirst, [West Riding of] Yorkshire

Temple Newsam, [West Riding of] Yorkshire

Oxfordshire

London.

People mentioned

Edward III, King of England

John Darcy 'le Cosyn', grandfather of petitioner

Philip Darcy, father of petitioner

Prior of the Order of St John of Jerusalem in England

[John of Gaunt], Duke of Lancaster

Richard [II], King of England

Henry Crounale, Brother of the Order of St John of Jerusalem in England

Thomas Archar (Archer), Prior of the Order of St John of Jerusalem in England.

Another petition concerning the same lands, from John's father Philip, is SC 8/19/925