Catalogue description Petitioners: William de Sleford (Sleaford), dean of St Stephen's chapel in the palace...

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Details of SC 8/165/8246
Reference: SC 8/165/8246
Description:
Petitioners: William de Sleford (Sleaford), dean of St Stephen's chapel in the palace of Westminster and the canons of the chapel.
Name(s): de Sleford (Sleaford), William
Addressees: Council.
Occupation: dean of St Stephen's chapel in the palace of Westminster
Nature of request: The dean and canons request remedy, since Edward I purchased certain lands in Kent late of the Countess of Huntingdon, of which he enfeoffed his son John and other lords who then granted by their charter to the dean and canons a certain parcel for 40 years in discharge of a great sum of money which they took yearly from the King at his Exchequer. And then Burley, regardless of the said discharge and grant, wrongfully ousted them, in which matter a writ was granted in the last parliament which is now before the council. Also, whereas Burley has caused the greater part of the large trees growing in the park of Langley to be cut down, which park was part of the land granted to the petitioners, they request that a certain day be assigned for them to show and declare the title and warrant by which they were granted the land and that in the meantime Burley not allow any trees to be cut down in the said park.
Nature of endorsement: Burley should be called before the council by writ three weeks after Easter next and the dean and canons of the chapel ordered to be there at the same time, and then justice should be done in this matter, and those who cut down the wood ordered and charged by writs to stop doing so in the meantime.
Places mentioned: Westminster; Huntingdon, [Huntingdonshire]; Langley Park, [Kent].
People mentioned: Edward III, King of England; [Juliana de Leybourne], late Countess of Huntingdon; John [of Gaunt], King of Castile and Leon, Duke of Lancaster; Simon de Burele (Burley), deputy chamberlain.
Note: Dated on the guard to? 1388 when, following the execution of Burley in May 1388, St Stephen's was able to establish its title to its intended share of the Leybourne inheritance lands (Given-Wilson, 'Richard II and his Grandfather's Will', p. 330). The endorsement orders Burley to appear before them on the third week after Easter, which would be the week beginning 19 April if the year is indeed 1388. The latest possible date for this petition is therefore March 1388. The earliest possible date is 1383, since it is in this year that Burley was granted licence to acquire the petitioners' lands (CPR 1381-5, p. 305). This petition should therefore be dated 1383-March 1388.
Date: [1383-1388]
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. II, 1381-1385, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.305 (licence for acquisition of lands by Simon de Burley from the petitioners)

Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. III, 1385-1389, (Public Record Office, 1900), p.468 (appointment re inquest into crimes of Burley re Leybourne lands) & p.539 (restitution in accordance with petition)

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