Richard de Clare. de Clare Richard King and council. Richard de Clare states that...

Petitioners

Richard de Clare.

Name(s)

de Clare, Richard

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

Richard de Clare states that John de Hothum and the King's council in Ireland sent him to Leinster to defend those parts, where he has no lands or rents to support himself and his men, nor, while he remains there, can he have much profit from his own lands. He asks that while he is there he might have the issues of two thirds of the lands and franchise which belonged to the Earl of Gloucester in those parts, to aid his support and his costs.

Nature of endorsement

Because it is attested that the King can scarcely have any profit from those lands during this war, and the said Richard has no lands in those parts, as is contained in the petition, it seems, if it please the King, that it is good that he should have the issues at his pleasure during the war.It pleases the King.

Places mentioned

Leinster, Ireland.

People mentioned

John de Hothum

[Gilbert de Clare], Earl of Gloucester.

For transcript, see no.5 of PRO 31/7/100

• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. II, 1313-1317, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.459 (grant to the petitioner of two-thirds of the lands of Glibert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester, as requested, as well as pardons of, and respites from, his debts)
• 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 34 (brief calendar of petition)