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Petitioners

Thomas de Sibthorpe, clerk.

Name(s)

de Sibthorpe, Thomas

Addressees

King and council.

Occupation

clerk

Nature of request

Sibthorpe requests that the manor of Flanflour with lands in Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire which were granted to him by the Hospitallers for life, and which were originally granted to the Hospitallers after the statute made concerning the Templars. He held the same for 2 years but was ousted by those claiming to be heirs of donors of the lands, and the same are now in the king's hand.

Nature of endorsement

He should show in Chancery the writing he has of the hospitallers and the king's charter, and if they are able to find that the petitioner was seised of the manors, lands and tenements and they are in the king's hand for the reason stated, then restitution should be made to the petitioner of the lands to be held as before.

Places mentioned

Flauflour (Flawford Farm), [Nottinghamshire]

Nottinghamshire

Lincolnshire.

People mentioned

Prior of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem in England

Templars.

For the copy of an inspeximus formerly enclosed in this petition, see SC 8/161/8031

• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.21b (no.25) (full edition of later copy of original petition)
• 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.13-30, no.25 (summary of references)