Thomas More More Thomas [Missing] [This petition is fragmentary] . . . of his special...

Petitioners

Thomas More

Name(s)

More, Thomas

Addressees

[Missing]

Nature of request

[This petition is fragmentary] . . . of his special benign grace and as a work of charity gave and granted him the office of treasurer in the collegiate church of . . . office of treasurer as appears from his letters patent made on this; to which he was instututed, inducted and put in corporal [possession] . . . as his customary letters for such a case attest, and afterwards Thomas Bekyngham, clerk had put there/been put there . . . petitioner from the said benefice without any process [of law], whereas the said Thomas Bekyngham has no right . . . of God and in salvation of the right of the king our most dread lord; may it please you to grant the said petitioner letters . . . all the other ministers of my lord the Earl of March in the lordship of Builth, whereas the said prebend is . . . said benefice until by the right and law of the realm it is justly decided and judged if the king our said most dread lord . . .

Nature of endorsement

[None]

Places mentioned

[Abergwili, Carmarthenshire, Wales]

Builth, [Brecknockshire, Wales].

People mentioned

Thomas Bekyngham, clerk

[Roger de Mortimer], Earl of March.

For a related petition, see SC 8/186/9289

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Ric II, vol. III, 1385-1389, (Public Record Office, 1921), p.683 (mainprise for Thomas Bekyngham, clerk, that he shall not go abroad without the king's permission, or make any suit or attempt tending to contempt of the king, especially concerning the treasurership of Abergwili)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. III, 1385-1389, (Public Record Office, 1900), p.516 (grant to Thomas More of the prebend of Llangamarch in the collegiate church of Abergwili)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. IV, 1388-1392, (Public Record Office, 1902), p.3 (grant to Thomas More of the office of treasurer and the prebend of Llangamarch in the collegiate church of Abergwili) & p.18 (similar grant, during the vacancy) & p.306 (ratification of original grants)