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..., abbot of St Mary Graces; Convent of St Mary Graces. abbot of St Mary Graces...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/345/E1320
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This record is about the ..., abbot of St Mary Graces; Convent of St Mary Graces. abbot of St Mary Graces... dating from [? 1449-? 1450] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/345/E1320
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? 1449-? 1450]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- ..., abbot of St Mary Graces; Convent of St Mary Graces.
- Occupation
- abbot of St Mary Graces
- Nature of request
- [The draft petition is very badly damaged, and although much of the sense is clear, too much has now been lost to reconstruct the complaint expressed in the petition. The petition recites the problems over the descent of the land assigned by Edward III to his feoffees for the performance of his will, though now only surviving in a fragmentary form].The petitioners request that the premises be considered, and that with the assent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and of the commonalty of the realm assembled in the present parliament, to ordain by authority of the same parliament that the petitioners and their successors may be restored to all the manors, lands, tenements and advowsons [reference is made to Bovey Tracey, Blagdon, Lydford and Staunton, but the damage probably conceals many other placenames] with all their appurtenances forever more, and that they and their successors now enter into them, and enjoy and occupy them against all manner of persons without loss or trouble, and without any other suit, saving the right of everyone has or their ancestors had before the gift made by Edward III to the king's great-grandfather, the late duke of Lancaster.
- Nature of endorsement
- [No response, but the final two lines of the request are continued on the dorse.
- Places mentioned
- Heleigh, [Staffordshire]
- Bovey Tracey, [Devon]
- Blagdon, [Somerset]
- Lydford, [Somerset]
- Staunton by Dunster, [Somerset]
- Cornwall.
- People mentioned
- [Simon Sudbury], Archbishop of Canterbury
- John [Buckingham], late bishop of Lincoln
- William, abbot of [St Mary Graces]
- James [Audley] of Heleigh
- John [de Holand], earl of Huntingdon and great-grandfather to Henry, Duke of Exeter
- Edward III, King of England
- Richard II, King of England
- John [Holand], duke [of Exeter], father of Henry, duke of Exeter
- John Pecche, abbot of [St Mary Graces]
- John [of Gaunt], duke of Lancaster.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to? 1449-? 1450. The petition is fragmentary but clearly relates to the problems concerning the performance of the will of Edward III. However, the petition is considerably later, and seems to be during the minority of Henry Holand, duke of Exeter, as the petition refers to the death of his father John (d. Aug. 1447), and to the manors and advowsons being in the king's hand by the minority of Duke Henry (1447-1451). The petition, therefore, dates to the period 1447-1451. In addition, the request clause of the petition refers to this petition being a petition in parliament, and must date to one of the two parliaments held at Westminster in 1449, or the one held at Westminster in November 1450. The parliament held in February 1449 is perhaps the most likely, being the first parliamentary opportunity to present a request after the death of John Holand, duke of Exeter. The dating adopted here agrees with the suggested dating recorded in a modern note on the dorse. The patent roll reference, though clearly related, must be slightly earlier (CPR 1446-52, p. 109).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a much earlier petition by one of the petitioner's predecessors on the same matter, see SC 8/20/989
For a much earlier petition by the feoffees of Edward III relating to this petition, see SC 8/100/4989
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen VI, vol. V, 1446-1452, (Public Record Office, 1910), p.109 (grant of various manors to the petitioners of which a former abbot had been disseised by the late duke of Exeter)
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