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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.

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