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Dean and college of the free chapel of St Stephen within the palace of Westminster....

Catalogue reference: SC 8/199/9921

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This record is about the Dean and college of the free chapel of St Stephen within the palace of Westminster.... dating from 1387 in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/199/9921
Date
1387
Description
Petitioners
Dean and college of the free chapel of St Stephen within the palace of Westminster.
Addressees
King and lords of parliament.
Nature of request
The petitioners state that Edward III purchased various lands, tenements and advowsons, and gave and granted them to John, Duke of Lancaster and others, with the intention of their being amortized to the college and to other houses of religion which he had founded; which feoffments were confirmed in the late parliament at Gloucester. The feoffees granted certain manors and advowsons to the college for forty years, but Simon de Burale has wrongly expelled them from these manors, lands and tenements, without reason. They ask that these manors, lands and tenements might be restored to them, considering that the King has granted them an annuity until they recover these lands or are given others to the same value.
Nature of endorsement
The parties mentioned here are to be called before the council by writ, three weeks after Easter, in the tenth year etc., and when the matter contained here has been heard, examined and answered, justice is to be done on this.
Places mentioned
Westminster
Castile [Spain]
Leon, [Spain]
Gloucester, [Gloucestershire].
People mentioned
Edward [III], King of England
John [of Gaunt], Duke of Lancaster and King of Castile and Leon
Simon de Burale (Burley).
Note
The endorsement mentions 3 weeks after Easter 10 Richard II (1387), and CCR 1385-9 p.222, which is clearly in response to this petition is dated 20 March 1387. See Given-Wilson, 'Richard II and his Grandfather's Will', English Historical Review, XCIII (1978), p. 330.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Close Rolls, Ric II, vol. III, 1385-1389, (Public Record Office, 1921), p.222 (order to Simon de Burley to appear before the King and council to answer on this)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9295810/

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