Catalogue description Petitioners: Dean and Canons of St Stephen's Chapel in the Palace of Westminster. ...

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Details of SC 8/184/9157
Reference: SC 8/184/9157
Description:
Petitioners: Dean and Canons of St Stephen's Chapel in the Palace of Westminster.
Addressees: King.
Nature of request: The Dean and Canons of St Stephen's chapel state that they leased the manor of Eastling with its appurtenances, stock, goods and chattels to Simon de Burley, but that this was seized into the king's hands following judgment against Burley. The king has returned the stock, goods and chattels to the petitioners under certain conditions and, but due to the great pains on their mainpernors, they request that they be granted the property, and that their mainpernors be discharged.
Nature of endorsement: [None]
Places mentioned: Westminster; Eselyng (Eastling), Kent.
People mentioned: Simon de Burley; Escheator of Kent.
Note: The privy seal letter with which this petition was formerly enclosed was dated at Westminster on 15 March 1390. For full discussion of the background to this petition see Given-Wilson, 'Richard II and his Grandfather's Will', English Historical Review, XCIII (1978), pp.320-37.
Date: [1390]
Related material:

For a related petition see SC 8/250/12460

For the chancery warrant with which this petition was formerly enclosed see no.6195 of C 81/514
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. IV, 1388-1392, (Public Record Office, 1902), p.240 (requested grant) & p.313 (later related grant)

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