John Crispus (le Crepe) of Ireland, burgess of Caernarfon. Crispus (le Crepe) John...

Petitioners

John Crispus (le Crepe) of Ireland, burgess of Caernarfon.

Name(s)

Crispus (le Crepe), John

Addressees

King.

Occupation

burgess of Caernarfon

Nature of request

John Crispus of Ireland requests a writ of inquisition into the theft of his corn from his land in Duftheaun by brother Philip Curteys, Master of the hospital of Kilmainham Beg, which corn he had received from brother Philip for a debt he owed him for some land he sold to brother William Fitz Roger, Prior of the Hospital of Ireland. He also requests a remedy for 18 marks which brother William and brother Philip should have paid to Richard Heustace, burgess of Kells, for the same land, which they are withholding.

Nature of endorsement

This petition is to be sent to Ireland, and the Justiciar is to be ordered to do for it what is to be done.

Places mentioned

Ireland

Caernarfon, [Caernarfonshire, Wales]

Dufthestun (Duftheaun), [County Meath, Ireland]

Kilmainham Beg, [County Meath, Ireland]

Kells, [County Meath, Ireland].

People mentioned

Philip Curteys, Master of the hospital of Kilmainham Beg

William Fitz Roger, Prior of the Hospital (Knights Hospitallers) of Ireland

Richard Heustace (Eustace), burgess of Kells.

For a contemporary petition from the same petitioner, see SC 8/99/4901

For transcript, see p.17 of PRO 31/7/92

• 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 (brief calendar of petition)
• 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) & p.22 (no.32l) (full edition of petition)
• 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. 32(xviii) (full edition and translation)