Abbot and convent of Blancheland. King and council. The Abbot and convent of Blancheland...

Petitioners

Abbot and convent of Blancheland.

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

The Abbot and convent of Blancheland request remedy, and that they be restored to their possession of the advowson of the church of St Lawrencee on Jersey. They state that King John, the King's grandfather, granted them the advowson, which they held peaceably and presented to the church until the war between the Kings of England and France when the lands and tenements of religious aliens were seised into the King's hand. The church was vacant, and the bailiff of Jersey and Guernsey presented his clerk to it in the King's name. However, following a truce, the church again fell vacant, and the bailiff, claiming that the presentment belonged to the king, arraigned an assize against the Abbot, and procured the justices to take the assize in the Abbot's absence. When he arrived, having been delayed by a storm, he claimed the King's gift and showed his deed, but the justices and bailiffs would not hear them or do justice.

Nature of endorsement

And the said abbot was often called but did not come nor did he have a proctor etc. But a certain Brother Ralph of the same monastery came and showed the letters of the same abbot, showing that the lands, tenements and other possessions belonged to the said Abbot, and were then in the hands of the king. Therefore the Abbot ...

Places mentioned

Blancheland, [Normandy, France]

Coutances, Normandy, [France]

Jersey, [Channel Islands]

France

Guernsey, [Channel Islands]

Wenlock (Much Wenlock), [Shropshire]

Channel Islands.

People mentioned

John, King of England

[Henry de Bonvillars], Prior of Wenlock

Robert de Leyset, justice of the Channel Islands.

For a related entry on the roll of the Jersey eyre of 1299, see rot 11 of JUST 1/1158