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Petitioners

Richard de Clare, king's clerk.

Name(s)

de Clare, Richard

Addressees

King and Council.

Occupation

king's clerk

Nature of request

The petitioner asks to be restored to the living of Dungarvan Church, from which he was ousted when Roger Mortimer granted the church to the archbishop for the raising of a prison in Cashel. And then by the aid and procurement of Mortimer, [the archbishop] bought confirmation from the king of Mortimer's grant and by usurping possession procured the bishop of Lismore (his suffragan), to proceed against the petitioner and oust him from the church, and wrongly deliver the same to the bishop contrary to the king's estate and in disinheritance of the crown.

Nature of endorsement

The tenor of the confirmations are being inspected, and upon this the king will have consideration.

Places mentioned

Ireland

Dungarvan, [County Waterford, Ireland]

Cashel, [County Tipperary, Ireland].

People mentioned

[William Fitz John], Archbishop of Cashel

Bishop of Lismore

Roger Mortimer, lately Keeper of Ireland.

For a related petition see SC 8/104/5178

For a related document see SC 8/104/5181

For a copy of related letters patent see SC 8/104/5180

• Documents on the Affairs of Ireland before the King's Council , G.O. Sayles, (Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1979), pp.107-8 (no.147) (edition of petition)
• 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 wirth references)