Christina de Mareys (Marish). de Mareys (Marish) Christina King and council. Christina...

Petitioners

Christina de Mareys (Marish).

Name(s)

de Mareys (Marish), Christina

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

Christina de Mareys states that she brought a writ of mort d'ancestor against Agnes de Valence and others named in the writ, concerning tenements in Rathmore in County Kildare and Athlacca in County Limerick, of which her brother Walter, whose heir she is, died seised in his demesne as in fee, but she has been delayed by the king's protection, which Agnes has claimed for twenty years and more - contrary to justice, as she is a woman and has not been in the king's service anywhere. She requests a writ to the justices of Ireland that she might have common law, notwithstanding this protection.

Nature of endorsement

She is to have a writ of Chancery in the form which she requests.

Places mentioned

Ireland

Rathmore, County Kildare, Ireland

Athelagkath (Athlacca), County Limerick, Ireland.

People mentioned

Agnes de Valence

Walter [de Mareys (Marish)], brother of the petitioner.

For transcript, see p.90 of PRO 31/7/93

For another petition by the same petitioner on the same matter, see SC 8/328/E890

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw I, vol. V, 1302-1307, (Public Record Office, 1908), pp.305-306 (mandate to the justiciar of Ireland in response to the petition)
• Irish Material in the Class of Ancient Petitions (SC 8) in the Public Record Office, Analecta Hibernica, vol. XXIV, P. Connolly, (Stationery Office of Ireland, 1987), p.8 (calendar of petition)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.466b, no.33 (full edition of 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), 1305, autumn parliament, appendix, evidence of business done at this parliament from chancery enrolments and elsewhere, no.40 (list of references to this petition)