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Thomas Smothe; Alice Smothe, wife of Thomas Smothe; Thomas Smothe, son of Thomas...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/158/7881

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Reference
SC 8/158/7881
Date
[c. 1346]
Description
Petitioners
Thomas Smothe; Alice Smothe, wife of Thomas Smothe; Thomas Smothe, son of Thomas and Alice Smothe.
Name(s)
Smothe; Smothe; Smothe, Thomas; Alice; Thomas
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
[The petition is only partially legible, and the request is cut away].The Smothes [request remedy] as the justiciar has taken lands that they were granted for life by Poer into the king's hand, being unaware of their tenure, and they have been granted at farm to Burton. The grant was made to them before Poer failed to produce the earl of Desmond for whom he was a mainpernor, and before his indictment for trespasses and felonies.
Nature of endorsement
[The response is largely worn away but appears to be an order to examine the matter and certify the king].
Places mentioned
Dublin, [Ireland]
Castlewarden, [County Kildare, Ireland]
Oughterard, [County Kildare, Ireland].
People mentioned
Eustace le Poer
William de Burton
[Maurice Fitz Thomas], earl of Desmond.
Note
The petition dates to c. 1346 as the writ and return de causa captionis dates to 20 Edw. III (C 47/10/20 (7)). This dating is substantially confirmed by the existence of another petition by the same petitioners on the same matter that dates to 1347 (21 Edw. III) (C 81/317/18147).
Related material

For another petition by the same petitioners on the same matter, see no.18147 in C 81/317

For the writ and return de causa captionis concerning the manors see no.7 in C 47/10/20

See also C 49/7/23

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
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.52 (brief calendar of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9210073/

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