Abbot and convent of Stanley. King and council. The abbot and convent request remedy...

Petitioners

Abbot and convent of Stanley.

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

The abbot and convent request remedy as they have long petitioned for the manor of Berwick Basset of which they were enfeoffed by Philip Basset until they were disseised by Despenser, and although le Scrope held an inquisition into this, he would not proceed without the king's counsel.

Nature of endorsement

Let Geoffrey le Scrope be ordered to have the record before the king in Chancery in the quinzene of Easter, and let the record be examined in the same place, and let what is considered to be done be done.

Places mentioned

York

Northampton, [Northamptonshire]

Winchester, [Hampshire]

Westminster

Stanley, [Wiltshire]

Berwick Basset, Wiltshire.

People mentioned

Hugh le Despenser, the younger.

For another petition by the same petitioners on the same matter see SC 8/159/7915

This petition may be referred to by SC 8/207/10323

For another petition by the same petitioner on the same matter see SC 8/72/3573

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. IV, 1337-1339, (Public Record Office, 1900), p.193 (order to the justices to proceed to judgment)
• The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rotuli Parliamentorum II, pp. 70-2, no. 2 (summary of references to possibly related petition)