Gerard de Seynt Michel (St Michael), knight. de Seynt Michel (St Michael) Gerard...

Petitioners

Gerard de Seynt Michel (St Michael), knight.

Name(s)

de Seynt Michel (St Michael), Gerard

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

Gerard de Seynt Michel asks for a writ to the Justiciar of Ireland to proceed in an assize of novel disseisin between him and Nichola, daughter of Richard de Seynt Michel, notwithstanding Nichola's minority, in recompense for the service he has done the King, and that he might be excused payment of the farm for the lands in question, which he holds pending the judgment, while they are in the King's hand, as they have been burnt and destroyed by Edward le Brus.

Nature of endorsement

He is to sue in Chancery.Petitions from Ireland which have been answered and which have not been pursued.

Places mentioned

Riban (Castlereban), [County Kildare, Ireland]

Athy, [County Kildare, Ireland]

Ireland

Scotland

Ulster, [Ireland].

People mentioned

John Wogan, Justiciar of Ireland

Richard de Seynt Michel (St Michael)

Nichola [de Seynt Michel (St Michael)], daughter of Richard de Seynt Michel (St Michael)

Walter de la Haye, Escheator of Ireland

Edward le Brus (Bruce)

John Fitz Thomas.

For transcript, see p.31 of PRO 31/7/70

For another petition by the same petitioner, see SC 8/327/E846

• Documents on the Affairs of Ireland before the King's Council , G.O. Sayles, (Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1979), pp.84-5 (no.110) (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.48 (brief calendar of petition)