Maud de Castre (Caistor), widow of Adam de Castre. de Castre (Caistor) Maud King....

Petitioners

Maud de Castre (Caistor), widow of Adam de Castre.

Name(s)

de Castre (Caistor), Maud

Addressees

King.

Nature of request

Maud de Castre states that her husband and others were amerced as a result of a writ of novel disseisin brought against them by one Thomas Judas, and that, because the others are unable to pay, and through the malice of bailiffs, the entire amercement is being demanded of Adam's seven-year-old heir, as surety for the others. As Adam's inheritance will not suffice to pay this sum, and will have to be sold, she requests the King's grace in this matter.

Nature of endorsement

The Justiciar of Ireland is to be ordered that because of the good service that he did the King, he is to pardon her in part or set instalments for the whole, according to his discretion.

Places mentioned

Dublin, [Ireland].

People mentioned

Adam de Castre (Caistor)

Thomas Judas.

For transcript, see pp.15-16 of PRO 31/7/92

For a duplicate differently endorsed see SC 8/89/4418

• 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.30 (note of reference to SC 8/89/4418)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum Anglie Hactenus Inediti, Ed. H.G. Richardson and G.O. Sayles, (Camden Society, 3rd Series, vol. LI, 1935), p.15 (edition of a record of the Acton Burnel parliament of 1283 which mentions a petition which may be this one) & pp.23-24 (no.33) (full edition of duplicate petition and of endorsement)
• 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), C 49, File 2, appendix, no. 33 (full edition and translation of duplicate petition and of endorsement)