Robert de Haliwell, clerk. de Haliwell Robert King and council. Irish Sea Ireland....

Petitioners

Robert de Haliwell, clerk.

Name(s)

de Haliwell, Robert

Addressees

King and council.

Places mentioned

Irish Sea

Ireland.

Nature of request

Robert de Haliwell states that he has served the king and his father well for thirty-five years and more, in Chancery and elsewhere, that he has been sent overseas to several countries, and that he has crossed the Irish sea eighteen times on the business of the realm, and has received no advancement. And now, because he has been gravely ill for three-quarters of a year, and cannot ride or travel, certain people have had him thrown out of court, both from table, and from profit and gain, so that he has no means of support. He asks that this bill be sent to the Chancellor, with the endorsement that he is to have the first worthless church that becomes available, or that he is to have his estate at court back, until he can find a church to support himself with, as you (the king) have previously ordered him to do.

Nature of endorsement

Coram rege.This is to be sent to the Chancellor, and he is to consider the matter and further do what it seems to him is to be done etc.

For an earlier related petition from the same petitioner, see SC 8/7/350

For another petition from the same petitioner, see SC 8/83/4106

• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. V, 1324-1327, (Public Record Office, 1904), p.193 (grant to Robert de Haliwell of the chapel of St Mary by Gravesend)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.418b, no. 7 (full edition of a later copy of the original petition)
• The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rot. Parl. vol. I, pp. 416-429, no. 7 (summary of references)