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

Catalogue reference: SC 8/20/961

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Reference
SC 8/20/961
Date
[1379-1384]
Description
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.
Note
CFR 1377-83, p.136 is dated at Westminster, 1 June 1379. CCR 1381-5, p.563 is dated at Westminster, 16 July 1384. The petition must be dated within these dates. Rot. Parl. vol. III, p.130b (no. 16) edits it amongst petitions from 5 Richard II (22 June 1381 - 21 June 1382). 'Irish Ancient Petitions', p.10 dates this petition to 1380-1384.
Related material

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

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 5449
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • 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)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061116/

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