Thomas de Morle (Morley), knight. de Morle (Morley) Thomas King and council in parliament....

Petitioners

Thomas de Morle (Morley), knight.

Name(s)

de Morle (Morley), Thomas

Addressees

King and council in parliament.

Nature of request

Thomas de Morle states that William de Morle, his father, and his other ancestors, were seised continually of the office of Marshal of Ireland from time immemorial, until the time when it was ordained by Edward III's council at Guildford that everyone who held an office in Ireland should live there for the defence of the same land, or send other suitable people in his name, and because his father's lieutenant, John de Naunton, who was killed in London at this time, did not arrive, the office was seized into the king's hand; and afterwards, when by another ordinance made on this matter, all others whose possessions had been seized in this way were restored to them, the petitioner was not. He requests that he be restored to the office of Marshal, as the others have been to their offices.

Nature of endorsement

The Justiciar of Ireland, or his lieutenant there, is to be ordered to certify in Chancery, clearly and fully, as to reason why it was seized into the king's hands; and when that certification has been returned in the Chancery of England, justice is to be done to the said petitioner, in the same way as it has been done to the others whose possessions have been seized in a similar way by virtue of the aforesaid ordinance.

Places mentioned

Ireland

Guildford, [Surrey]

London.

People mentioned

William de Morle (Morley), father of petitioner

[Edward III], King of England

John de Naunton.

Another petition from the same petitioner on the same subject is SC 8/126/6254

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Ric II, vol. II, 1381-1385, (Public Record Office, 1920), p.563 (indenture between the petitioner, referred to as Marshal of Ireland, and various persons)
• Calendar of Fine Rolls, vol. IX, Ric II, 1377-1383, (Public Record Office, 1927), p.136 (order to escheator to deliver to the petitioner his father's lands)
• 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.9 (brief calendar)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.130b (no. 16) (full edition of related petition)