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Alexander de Bicknor, Archbishop of Dublin. de Bicknor Alexander King and council...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/44/2176

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Reference
SC 8/44/2176
Date
[c. 1333]
Description
Petitioners
Alexander de Bicknor, Archbishop of Dublin.
Name(s)
de Bicknor, Alexander
Addressees
King and council
Occupation
Archbishop of Dublin
Nature of request
The archbishop shows that Thornbury at the time of his death was in debt to the king, and his goods were seized by order of the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer where they still are. The archbishop is charged for Thornbury and requests a writ to the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer to search the inventories of the goods so that the king can be answered for the debts in discharge of the archbishop and Thornbury.
Nature of endorsement
[On face] Coram rege.[On dorse] Let it be ordered to the treasurer and barons that they inform themselves by inquisition and other ways as to where the goods are so that the king can be paid in discharge of the archbishop.
Places mentioned
Dyvelyn (Dublin), [Ireland].
People mentioned
Walter de Thornbury, late deputy treasurer.
Note
The petition cannot be accurately dated as the guard reference is to a related matter, but not the matter that this petition concerns (CCR 1333-7, pp.56-7). It is likely that the petition is of a similar date and is therefore dated to c.1333.
Related material

For another petition by the same petitioner on the same matter see SC 8/43/2137

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 2547
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. III, 1333-1337, (Public Record Office, 1898), pp.56-7 (writs to the treasurer and barons on a related matter)
  • Documents on the Affairs of Ireland before the King's Council , G.O. Sayles, (Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1979), p.162 (no.182) (full edition of original petition)
  • 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 of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062386/

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