Prior and Convent of Hexham. King The Prior and Convent of Hexham request that the...

Petitioners

Prior and Convent of Hexham.

Addressees

King

Nature of request

The Prior and Convent of Hexham request that the king examine and confirm their rights to the tithes of five villages in the parish of Stamfordham. They state that Normanville granted certain tenements and the advowson of Stamfordham to Bernard, Prior of Hexham, and they held this until, following a dispute with the priory over the presentation, it was seized by Nicholas, Bishop of Durham, except for the five villages and their tithes. Lately, the king has sued a writ against Anthony, Bishop of Durham, claiming rights of presentment due to the forfeiture of Lovel, a Norman, and his wife Isabel, third daughter and co-heir of John de Normanville, for which he should have every third presentment. They ask that this matter have no effect upon their rights in these villages.

Nature of endorsement

[None]

Places mentioned

Hexham, [Northumberland]

Stamfordham, [Northumberland]

Durham diocese.

People mentioned

[Thomas de Fenwick], Prior of Hexham

John de Normanville

Bernard, Prior of Hexham

Hugh de Stanbrig (Stanbridge), clerk

Nicholas [Farnham], Bishop of Durham

Anthony [Bek], Bishop of Durham

Richard Lovel

Isabel [Lovel], wife of Richard Lovel, daughter of John de Normanville.

For the chancery warrant with which this petition was formerly enclosed see no.4758 of C 81/48

• Ancient Petitions Relating to Northumberland, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CLXXI, 1961), pp.52-3 (no.40) (calendar of petition, with discussion)
• Calendar of Chancery Warrants, 1244-1326, (Public Record Office, 1927), p.229 (order to enquire into the contents of the petition)
• Memoranda de Parliamento, or Records of the Parliament holden at Westminster, 25 Edw I, Ed. F.W. Maitland, (Rolls Series, vol. XCVIII, 1893), pp.7-8 (no.5) (full edition of petition and associated entry on parliament roll)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.159b (Latin summary of petition on parliament roll)
• 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), roll 12, appendix, no. 5 (full edition and translation of petition and associated warrant)