Thomas Gorges. Gorges Thomas [Lost]. [The petition is badly damaged so that much...

Petitioners

Thomas Gorges.

Name(s)

Gorges, Thomas

Addressees

[Lost].

Nature of request

[The petition is badly damaged so that much of the detail is missing, and the full sense is not clear from the petition itself. However, the privy seal warrant with which it was formerly enclosed reveals that Thomas Gorges was complaining that the right of presentation to the viacarage of Sturminster Marshall pertained to him, but that one William Dionys had claimed that the vicarage was void and that the right of presentation pertained to the king and had been presented to the same. The petition gives the details of the descent of certain lands and the advowson of the vicarage, though the full details of this are not elaborated on by the warrant].

Nature of endorsement

[None].

Places mentioned

Sturminster Marshall, [Dorset].

People mentioned

William [Russell], son of Theobald Russell

Theobald, brother of [...]

Ralph Fitz Ralph

John le [...], vicar of Sturminster Marshall

Bishop of Salisbury

Bartholomew, son and heir of [...]

John Edward, vicar of Sturminster Marshall

Theobald, brother of William, and brother and heir of Bartholomew

John Halleyn, vicar of Sturminster Marshall

William Dionys.

For the privy seal warrant with which this petition was formerly enclosed, see no. 2581 in C 81/608

• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen IV, vol. I, 1399-1401, (Public Record Office, 1903), p.55 (ratification of the estate that Dionys had in the parsonage in Lincolnshire, and in the vicarage of Sturminster Marshall)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen IV, vol. II, 1401-1405, (Public Record Office, 1905), p.315 (presentation of Thomas Merk, late bishop of Carlisle to the vicarage of Sturminster Marshall on the resignation of Dionys)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. IV, Hen V and Hen VI, (Record Commission, 1783), p.285a-b (no.28) (later petition by the son of the petitioner on a different matter)