John O'Grada, Archbishop-elect of Cashel. O'Grada John King and Council. Archbishop-elect...

Petitioners

John O'Grada, Archbishop-elect of Cashel.

Name(s)

O'Grada, John

Addressees

King and Council.

Occupation

Archbishop-elect of Cashel

Nature of request

The petitioner seeks recovery of Dungarvan Church, together with its associated chapels (or lands or rents to the value of the church) which were granted by the king's father to William Fitz John and his successors forever, for the provision of a prison in Cashel that cost 600 marks, and after which time Richard de Clare sued by a petition made under false representations in the time of the king's father at the parliament in York in 1321-2 in the absence of the archbishop, and the patronage of the church was seized back into the hands of the then king without warning, judgement, or due process. Then the present king granted the patronage of the said church to the earl of Desmond.1)

Nature of endorsement

Irish petition for the archbishop-elect of Cashel.2) Scrutinize the process by which the advowson was seized into the king's hands; then answer the petitioner in the presence of king and council.3) Let it be ordered to the Justiciar of Ireland that he informs the king if he can be relieved of the place without cost, and on the value of the place and the expenditure, then inform the archbishop and chapter of these matters, and how the recovery of the advowson would damage the king, and proved by this information; certify [to] the king.

Places mentioned

Ireland

Dungarvan, [County Waterford, Ireland]

York

Cashel, [County Tipperary, Ireland].

People mentioned

[William Fitz John], late Archbishop of Cashel

Edward II, King of England

Richard de Clare, lately parson of Dungarvan

Maurice Fitz Thomas, Earl of Desmond

Roger Mortimer, then Warden of Ireland.

For a copy of letters patent originally attached to this petition see SC 8/104/5180

For further arguments presented by the petitioner relating to this case see SC 8/104/5181

For a related petition see SC 8/104/5179

• Calendar of Patent Rolls Edw III, vol. II, 1330-1334, (Public Record Office, 1894), p.492 (resulting restoration)
• Documents on the Affairs of Ireland before the King's Council , G.O. Sayles, (Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1979), pp.157-8 (no.177) (edition of petition with references)
• 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.35 (brief calendar of petition with references)