Abbot and monks of the new abbey of Our Lady of Graces by the Tower of London (St...

Petitioners

Abbot and monks of the new abbey of Our Lady of Graces by the Tower of London (St Mary Graces, Eastminster).

Addressees

King and council in the present parliament.

Nature of request

The abbot and monks request that the grant of several manors that Edward III bought the reversions of from Audley, and had intended in his will to be conveyed to the abbot and monks, but which Richard II gave to John Holland be annulled, and that the manors, lands and tenements with the advowsons of churches with other appurtenances be delivered to them and be amortised to them in pure and perpetual alms.

Nature of endorsement

[On face:]For the abbot of Graces next to the Tower of London.[On dorse, none].

Places mentioned

Blagdon, Somerset

Bovy Tracy, Devon

Haldesworth (Holdsworthy), Devon

Langacre, Devon

Ludeford (East Lydford), Somerset

Whitestaunton, Somerset

Northlew, Devon

Tackbeare, Cornwall

Cornwall.

People mentioned

Edward III, King of England

James Daudele (Audley), knight

John [of Gaunt], Duke of Lancaster and father of the king

John Holand (Holland), Duke of Exeter.

For another petition from the same petitioners, see SC 8/20/989

For a duplicate of this petition, see SC 8/324/E658

• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen IV, vol. I, 1399-1401, (Public Record Office, 1903), pp.274-5, 397, 457 (resulting grant, exemplification and inspeximus and confirmation)
• Richard II and his Grandfather's Will, C. Given-Wilson, (English Historical Review, XCIII, pp. 32, 1978), pp. 320-337 (discussion of context of this petition with editions of related petitions)