Abbot of Baltinglass. King and council. Abbot of Baltinglass The Abbot asks to be...

Petitioners

Abbot of Baltinglass.

Addressees

King and council.

Occupation

Abbot of Baltinglass

Nature of request

The Abbot asks to be allowed to pay a debt owed to Gerard Gymbard of the company of the Lucca in annual instalments of 10 marks. This debt is in the king's hand like the other debts of the Lucca in Ireland, and he has made recognisance for it in the Dublin Exchequer. He asks this as his house has been impoverished by robberies by the Irish, as the Justiciar of Ireland and other lords of the land who are here know.

Nature of endorsement

Coram rege.The king has granted that they are to pay 10 marks annually at the king's will until etc.

Places mentioned

Balkinglas (Baltinglass), [County Wicklow, Ireland]

Dyvelyn (Dublin), [Ireland]

Ireland.

People mentioned

Gerard Gymbard, [merchant] of the company of the Lucca.

For a petition from the abbot and convent, see SC 8/258/12871

For an unedited parliament roll containing a Latin summary of this petition, see m 2 of SC 9/25

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw I, vol. IV, 1296-1302, (Public Record Office, 1906), p.547 (instructions to Treasurer and Barons of Dublin Exchequer to allow the abbot to pay his debt by instalments)
• Documents on the Affairs of Ireland before the King's Council , G.O. Sayles, (Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1979), pp.56-7 (no.69) (full edition)
• 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.11 (brief calendar)
• 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), roll 25, appendix, no.46 (full edition and translation)
• Two Hitherto Unpublished Membranes of Irish Petitions, Presented at the Midsummer Parliament of 1302 and the Lent Parliament of 1305, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, G. Hand, (Royal Irish Academy, 1971), pp.2-10 (edition of Latin summary of petition on parliament roll)