Sub-prior and convent of St Martin's, Dover. King. [The petition is incomplete, the...

Petitioners

Sub-prior and convent of St Martin's, Dover.

Addressees

King.

Nature of request

[The petition is incomplete, the lower section having been torn off.]The Sub-prior and Convent of St Martins, Dover, state that Henry II gave their church to Archbishop Theobald for the use of Benedictine monks. However, the Archbishop then declared that, when the priory was vacant, a monk of Holy Trinity Canterbury should become Prior, contrary to the will of their founder. This was over-turned under Edward I, but on the 13 December 1318 the prior died, and they have been without a Prior since then due to the actions of the prior of Holy Trinity. [The rest of the petition is missing].

Nature of endorsement

The two petitions from the monks of Dover are [answered] as follows.[Details of the legal process follow, but the text runs perpendicular to that on the face, and as such the right end of each line is missing, making the sense difficult to reconstruct.]

Places mentioned

Dover, [Kent]

Canterbury, [Kent].

People mentioned

Henry II, King of England

Theobald [of Bec], Archbishop of Canterbury

Innocent [II], Pope

Prior of Holy Trinity, Canterbury

Edward [I], King of England

John de Pecham, Archbishop of Canterbury

[Robert de Wetacre (Whiteacre)], Prior of Dover.

For a related petition from the same house, see SC 8/128/6383

For transcript, see no.30 of PRO 31/7/95

For a related petition see SC 8/82/4093

For a related document see no.129 in SC 1/36