Alexander de Bicknor, Archbishop of Dublin. de Bicknor Alexander [Not specified]....

Petitioners

Alexander de Bicknor, Archbishop of Dublin.

Name(s)

de Bicknor, Alexander

Addressees

[Not specified].

Occupation

Archbishop of Dublin

Nature of request

The Archbishop likewise states that the king's father, in the first year of his reign, at the time when the Templars were taken, ordered him, then Treasurer of Ireland, to find suitable sustenance for the Templars in Ireland, according to what was ordained by the king's council; which he did, paying various sums amounting to £399 4 s., and asking for an allowance for this in his account rendered at the Exchequer of England - an allowance which has not yet been given him. As a result of a petition in parliament, the king granted him a writ to the Justiciar, Chancellor and Treasurer of Ireland to inform the Treasurer and Barons of the English Exchequer on the matter, and in the meantime granted the Archbishop respite of a sum with which he was charged for the arrears of his account at the English Exchequer, but the Justiciar, Chancellor and Treasurer have not returned the writ, and a writ has been sent from the English Exchequer to levy from him the sum which was respited. He requests another writ to the Justiciar, Chancellor and Treasurer to provide the requested information, and a respite in the meantime from the levying of his debt.

Nature of endorsement

[On face] A writ is to be issued as before, returnable in Chancery on a certain day; and in the meantime he is to have a supersedeas until that day.

Places mentioned

Dyvelyn (Dublin), [County Dublin, Ireland].

People mentioned

Edward [II], King of England

Order of the Temple (Templars).

A copy of a writ sent by Edward II to the Justiciar, Chancellor and Treasurer of Ireland on this matter is SC 8/43/2136

For another petition by the same petitioner on the same matter see SC 8/44/2176

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. III, 1333-1337, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.56 (order to the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer to make allowance to the Archibishop for the sum spent on sustenance for the Templars)
• Documents on the Affairs of Ireland before the King's Council , G.O. Sayles, (Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1979), pp.160-1 (edition of document
• 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.14 (brief calendar)