Mayor and Citizens of Dublin. King and council 1) The petitioners request remedy...

Petitioners

Mayor and Citizens of Dublin.

Addressees

King and council

Nature of request

1) The petitioners request remedy concerning their right to plead in the city of all manner of debt as they ought not to go beyond the city to plead their debts.2) Request that they be restored to their piece of land that they hold in the bounds of the city, of which they were disseised because of an inquisition requested by Botiller to which they were not summoned, reciting a writ of the Lord Edward to his justice Davy de Barry.3) Request concerning liberties and customs of the citizens and their privilege not to pay tolls etc., reciting two writs of Edward I.

Nature of endorsement

[None]

Places mentioned

Dublin, [Ireland]

Longford next to Salisbury (Longford Castle), [Wiltshire]

People mentioned

Adam de Helmiswell, citizen of Dublin

Tybaud le Botiller

Davy de Barry, Justice of Ireland

Edward of Westminster

Robert de Ufford, Justice of Ireland

William de Arclo

Stephen, Bishop of Waterford.

For another portion of this petition see SC 8/44/2183

• 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.15 (brief calendar of petition)
• The Irish Parliament in the Middle Ages , H.G. Richardson and G.O. Sayles, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1952), pp.298-300 (transcription and translation of a portion of this petition)