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

Petitioners

Thomas de Morle (Morley).

Name(s)

de Morle (Morley), Thomas

Addressees

King and council in parliament.

Nature of request

Thomas de Morle, son and heir of William de Morle, states that during his father's lifetime the office of Marshal of Ireland was seized into the king's hands, because of an ordinance which stated that all people with lands or tenements in Ireland should live in them, and that this office is his inheritance. He requests that the king's officers in Ireland be commanded to deliver it to him, and that he might hold and perform the office by his deputy, notwithstanding that ordinance.

Nature of endorsement

The king's Lieutenant, Justiciar, or other governor in the land of Ireland is to be ordered to certify fully, in the Chancery of England, the reason why this office was seized, and concerning the other matters included in this bill; and on this certification justice is to be done to the said supplicant in the same way as it has been to the others in this case.

Places mentioned

Ireland.

People mentioned

William de Morle (Morley), father of petitioner.

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

For transcript, see no.46 of PRO 31/7/108

• 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 his father's lands to the petitioner)
• 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.10 (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 original petition)