Abbot of Stanley. King and council. Abbot of Stanley Request that a case concerning...

Petitioners

Abbot of Stanley.

Addressees

King and council.

Occupation

Abbot of Stanley

Nature of request

Request that a case concerning Stanley Abbey's rights in the manor of Berwick Bassett, of which Hugh Despenser disseised a previous abbot, be brought to judgment, petitions on the matter in previous parliaments at Westminster and York having been answered, but nothing having been done.

Nature of endorsement

Order that the record and process of the case be brought into chancery and, if the claims of the petition are correct, the justices will be ordered to proceed to judgment.

Places mentioned

Stanley Abbey, Wiltshire

Westminster

York

Berwick Bassett, Wiltshire.

People mentioned

Hugh Despenser the elder

Geoffrey le Scrope.

This petition may possibly refer to SC 8/157/7830

For a related document see SC 8/72/3573

• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.70a-b (edition of 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. 70-2, no. 2 (summary of references)