Nicholas Dixon, clerk, a feoffee of the land and tenements which were of Robert Thirsk;...

Petitioners

Nicholas Dixon, clerk, a feoffee of the land and tenements which were of Robert Thirsk; Thomas Levesham (Levisham), clerk, executor of the will of Robert Thirsk; Thomas Wandesford of London, merchant, executor of the will of Robert Thirsk; Richard Acton, executor of the will of Robert Thirsk; John Langford, executor of the will of Robert Thirsk

Name(s)

Dixon; Thirsk; Levesham (Levisham); Wandesford; Acton; Langford, Nicholas; Robert; Thomas; Thomas; Richard; John

Addressees

Commons in parliament

Occupation

clerk; merchant

Nature of request

The petitioners state that Robert Thirsk by two letters patent of Henry V was granted a licence to establish a perpetual chantry of three chaplains before the altar of St Anne in the church of Thirsk, and to puchase lands or advowsons to endow it. However the letters patent have not been executed or put to use because Robert Thirsk died before then. The petitioners request that the commons request from the king that he grant to them that they are able to establish the chantry for divine services to be made there according to the ordinances made by them for the estate of the king, and the souls of his father and of Robert Thirsk; also that one of the chaplains become master, and that the chaplains be able to purchase the lands or advowsons in aid of their sustinence and other charges and works of compassion; also the master and chaplains be able to act in all things as other lieges of the king are able to do, the statute of mortmain notwithstanding.

Nature of endorsement

Let it be just as it is petitioned.

Places mentioned

Westminster

Ware, [Hertfordshire]

Thresk (Thirsk), [North Riding of Yorkshire]

People mentioned

Robert Thresk (Thirsk), clerk.

For a related document see no. 14 in C 81/1480

For a related document see SC 8/198/9900

• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen VI, vol. II, 1429-1436, (Public Record Office, 1907), p.212 (grant for the petitioners to establish and endow the chantry)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. IV, Hen V and Hen VI, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.398b-399a (transcription of petition on parliament roll)