Hervey de Stanton (or Staunton) (1260 – November 1327) was an English judge (serving both as Chief Justice of the King's Bench and as

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) and Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Origins and early career

He was a descendant of Sir William de Staunton, or Stanton, of Staunton,

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, by Athelina, daughter and co-heiress of John de Masters of Bassingham,

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. He seems to have held the living of

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, as early as 1289; afterwards he held the livings of Thurston and Werbeton, and about 1306, on being ordained priest, received the living of East Dereham. In November 1300 there is mention of him as going to the court of

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Judicial advancement

He was a justice itinerant in

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in 1302 and in

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in 1303. In the parliament of September 1305 he was a receiver of petitions from

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and Guernsey, and on 20 April 1306 was appointed one of the judges of the

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. On the accession of Edward II, Stanton was reappointed to the common pleas, and is frequently mentioned in judicial commissions.

Chancellor of the Exchequer and Chief Justice

On 28 September 1314, he was appointed one of the barons of the

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, and on 22 June 1316 Chancellor of the Exchequer, but continued to act as a judge, and was regularly summoned to parliament with the other judges. In 1323 he was made chief justice of the king's bench, and directed to discharge his duties at the exchequer by a substitute. On 27 March 1324, Stanton resigned the chief justiceship, and on 26 March was reappointed chancellor of the exchequer. He resigned the latter post on 18 July 1326, when he was appointed

. Stanton seems to have sided with Edward II, and in September Queen Isabella seized eight hundred marks which he had deposited at Bury St Edmunds. He was not reappointed on the accession of Edward III, and the proceedings of an ''iter'' he had held at London were reversed.

Foundation of Michaelhouse

As prebend of

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, and parson of East Dereham, he is mentioned as receiving protection on 30 January and 11 February 1327. On 2 March he had licence to alienate in mortmain the manor and

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of Barenton to the masters and scholars of St Michael's, Cambridge. Stanton died in 1327, before he could give effect to his foundation, and the licence was renewed to his executors. He was buried in the church of St Michael, Cambridge; during the relaying of the chancel floor in the 1850s, de Stanton's sarcophagus was unearthed. His foundation of

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was eventually absorbed in Trinity College, where Stanton is still commemorated as a benefactor and a memorial chapel survives.

References

External links

* https://web.archive.org/web/20071031050126/http://www.ely.anglican.org/parishes/camgsm/sermons/S2002m/cb1sermon.html {{DEFAULTSORT:Stanton, Hervey de 1260 births 1327 deaths People from Newark and Sherwood (district) Chancellors of the Exchequer of England Chief Justices of the Common Pleas Lord chief justices of England and Wales Trinity College, Cambridge Justices of the Common Pleas