Catalogue description Petitioners: Dean and canons of St Stephen's Chapel, Westminster. Addressees: ...

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Details of SC 8/250/12460
Reference: SC 8/250/12460
Description:
Petitioners: Dean and canons of St Stephen's Chapel, Westminster.
Addressees: King.
Nature of request: The dean and canons of the free chapel of St Stephen in Westminster palace request that whereas they demised to Burley the manor of Eastling with its goods and chattels at a certain yearly rent, which manor with its goods and with timber found in the manor of Elham, from which Burley had unjustly ejected them, were seized into the King's hand by the judgment against Burley, that they may have all the stock, goods and chattels pertaining to the same, since they are rightly theirs.
Nature of endorsement: [None].
Places mentioned: Westminster; Eastling, Kent; Elham, Kent; St Stephen's Chapel, Westminster.
People mentioned: Simon de Burley.
Note: Dated on the guard to 1390, with reference to CPR 1388-92, p. 313, a grant in accordance with the petition. However Given-Wilson dates it to the Cambridge parliament of September 1388 (Given-Wilson, 'Richard II and his Grandfather's Will', p. 330).
Date: [1388]
Related material:

For the Chancery warrant with which this was formerly enclosed see no.6662 of C 81/519
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.313 (grant in accordance with the petition)

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