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had ordered the friars to demolish their chapel on the grounds that it had been built on a site "belonging to the Abbot and
Convent of Torre". The friars appealed to the Pope in Avignon against this decision, but the pope's court eventually decided against them too, holding that papal privilege meant
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some children. He was then said to have gone into several taverns where he drank alcohol, showing people the ring which he wore, saying it had been given to him by the Pope himself. This attempt to save the friary was ultimately unsuccessful, and shortly after the result of the appeal reached Devon
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In 1340 a widow named Elena Cove won a case at the Exeter assizes in which she accused the friars, William Bacon, and several other
Dartmouth burgesses of depriving her of a house and half an acre of land at Clifton. As a result of this case the land was restored to her, reducing the chapel's
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The problems relating to the chapel were not resolved until 1372 when a charter dated 4th and 5 October stating that the Abbot and the Vicar of
Townstal assented to its consecration at the expense of the parishioners who were also to bear the cost of services, with the proviso that if it was
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opposed the building of a new church so nothing was done. In 1331 permission was granted "for aged and infirm parishioners" to celebrate mass at the chapel of St. Clare in a lower part of the town, but everyone else was clearly still expected to climb the hill to
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Bacon. In 1334 the bishop lifted Bacon's excommunication and the following year he allowed the friars to use their newly built chapel, but only for preaching, not for the celebration of mass or to hear confessions.
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William Bacon to assign to Torre Abbey an acre of land in
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of the town of
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that forbade any religious services from taking place at the church for two years. The Bishop gave licence to
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of Townstal was inherited by William FitzStephen (son of William FitzStephen), seated at Norton within the parish, who donated 1/3 of a
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on which they should build an "oratory and dwelling houses". They apparently started building promptly because later in 1331 Bishop
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