Maurice Russel of Ireland. Russel Maurice King. Maurice Russel asks that part of...

Petitioners

Maurice Russel of Ireland.

Name(s)

Russel, Maurice

Addressees

King.

Nature of request

Maurice Russel asks that part of his debt might be pardoned and the remainder paid in instalments, and that he might be appointed Sheriff of Cork and Waterford, in consideration of his good service in Ireland and Scotland.

Nature of endorsement

With regard to having terms: he is to account at the Exchequer, and the King is to be informed, and the King will take counsel. And in the meantime the distraints are to be halted.And with regard to the bailiwicks, he is to have them back; and a commission is to be made to him under the great seal, at the King's pleasure.

Places mentioned

Ireland

County Cork, [Ireland]

County Waterford, [Ireland]

Scotland.

Another petition from the same petitioner is SC 8/69/3426

For a later petition from the same petitioner about his debts is SC 8/69/3424

• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. IV, 1301-1307, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.19 (appointment of petitioner as Sheriff of Cork and Waterford)
• 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.24 (brief calendar)