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

Petitioners

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

Addressees

King.

Nature of request

The abbot and monks request that the king will consider the intent of his grandfather's avowal, and that the abbey of his foundation is still not sufficiently built or endowed, and that he will grant and by his letters patent amortise to the abbey all the manors of Leybourne, Gravesend, Lynches, Wateringbury, Gore, Paddocks, and Bicknor with the advowsons of the church and all the other appurtenances, and the reversion of Gomshall after the death of Stanes, to have and to hold to the abbot and monks in pure and perpetual alms according to the will of Edward III. They also request licence be granted to the duke of Lancaster and bishop of Lincoln that they are able to grant and release all the manors to the abbot and monks and their successors. The abbot and monks state that the manors were granted to the duke of Lancaster and others to enfeoff the abbot and convent of after the king's death, and they were enfeoffed and subsequently let the manors at farm to Burley, and after his death the manors were placed in the hand of keepers.1)

Nature of endorsement

All these that be within this.2) Bills of petitions in French and English to the king for various manors and other things ...

Places mentioned

Tower of London, [London]

Havering-atte-Bower, [Essex]

Leybourne, Kent

Gravesend, Kent

Lynches, Kent

Wateringbury, Kent

Gore [in Upchurch], Kent

Gomshall, Surrey

Parrok (Paddocks), Kent

Bicknor, Kent

Cambridge, [Cambridgeshire].

People mentioned

Edward III, King of England

John [of Gaunt], duke of Lancaster

Simon [Sudbury], Archbishop of Canterbury

John [Buckingham], Bishop of Lincoln

Henry [Wakefield], then Bishop of Worcester

William, Lord Latimer

John Knyvet, then Chancellor

Robert de Asshton (Ashton), knight, then Treasurer

Roger de Beauchamp, knight, then Chamberlain

John de Ipre, knight, then Steward of the Household

Nicholas Carreu (Carrew), then Keeper of the Privy Seal

Thomas de Stanes

Simon de Burley, knight

Walter de Sondew

Thomas Sakevyle (Sackville).

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

• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. VI, 1396-1399, (Public Record Office, 1909), p.316 (resulting grant)
• 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)