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Petitioners

Agnes de Valence.

Name(s)

de Valence, Agnes

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

Agnes de Valence states that on three occasions John Fitz Thomas seized her lands and goods in Ireland with force and arms, although she was under the King's protection at the time. She has sued on this matter and has managed to recover the lands, but because of the partiality of John Wogan, Justiciar of Ireland, she has never been able to recover her goods, or have damages. The King has most recently sent a writ to the Justiciar to do justice in this matter, or, if he could not, to adjourn the parties before the King in his next parliament in England; but he has ignored this. She requests grace and a remedy, and that, in consideration of the Justiciar's attitude, justice might be done to her before the King in England.

Nature of endorsement

Since the Justiciar, when taxed with this, cannot excuse his negligence and default in failing to provide justice to her in this matter, therefore to judgment on behalf of the King with the Justiciar etc. And the Justiciar is ordered as before etc. by writ of Chancery etc., that on pain of everything that he can forfeit to the King he is to carry out etc. and he is to provide information on what etc. at the next parliament.

Places mentioned

Ireland.

People mentioned

John Fitz Thomas

John Wogan, Justiciar of Ireland.

For the writ mentioned by this petition see SC 8/145/7242

• 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.49 (brief calendar of this petition)
• Memoranda de Parliamento, or Records of the Parliament holden at Westminster, 25 Edw I, Ed. F.W. Maitland, (Rolls Series, vol. XCVIII, 1893), pp.240-3 (no.420) (Latin summary and 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), roll 12, appendix, no.503 (full edition and translation)