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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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Dartmouth and was petitioned by the town's burgesses to allow them to build a church down by the waterside because of what they said was the "very great fatigue of their bodies" in climbing the hill to Townstal. Their petition was granted by a charter dated 16 February 1330 which allowed
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some children. He was then said to have gone into several taverns where he drank, 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 the
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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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of the town, to hold private services at his house, but nothing was done for the general public of the town. In 1330 King
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