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Abbot and convent of Our Lady of Graces beside the Tower of London (St Mary Graces)....

Catalogue reference: SC 8/345/E1334

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SC 8/345/E1334
Date
[? 1470-? 1485]
Description
Petitioners
Abbot and convent of Our Lady of Graces beside the Tower of London (St Mary Graces).
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
The abbot and convent state that the king commanded his chancellor to assign certain persons of his council to examine the evidence, title and right that the petitioners have in certain lands and tenements as appears in a bill presented to the king on the 14 November last. The chancellor assigned Hussey, Tremayle and Hodye who made the examination, and the petitioners request that that one of the sergeants-at-arms or another be commanded to call before the king Hussey, Tremayle and Hodye, and command them to relate their findings so that the petitioners may have knowledge whether their interest, title and right be good in law or not.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Tower of London, London
London.
People mentioned
William Huse (Hussey), chief justice [of King's Bench]
Tremayle, king's sergeant
Hodye, king's attorney.
Note
The petition has been dated to? 1470-? 1485 on the basis of the hand, and because of the reference apparently to William Hody in the petition, he becoming a major legal figure during the reign of Henry VII. The Petition has been dated to 1485-1486 on the guard note that seems to be based on a possibly faulty understanding of the career of William Hody. Hody is referred to by surname in the petition, and is described as 'your [the king's] attournaye'. William Hody became attorney general in September 1485, and soon after became chief baron of the Exchequer in 1486 (Sainty, A List of English Law Officers, King's Counsel and Holders of Patents of Precedence, (1987), p. 44; Sainty, The Judges of England, p. 94). If the petition is dated so narrowly to this date because Hody was attorney general, then this seems to be an erroneous assumption, as being a mere king's attorney was not one and the same thing! Consequently a wider date range has been adopted as Hody would seem likely to have held more junior legal positions before his promotion under Henry VII.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9736755/

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