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Arnold le Poer Poer Arnold King and council. [Petition in 2 parts:]1) Poer requests...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/170/8492

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Reference
SC 8/170/8492
Date
[c. 1316]
Description
Petitioners
Arnold le Poer
Name(s)
Poer, Arnold
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
[Petition in 2 parts:]1) Poer requests that the king's ministers be ordered to . . . and make a remedy to him as the king granted him 100 marks annually of land in Oughterard and Castlewarden but the ministers have only assigned £32 of land.2) Poer requests a grant of Courtown and Glascarrig amongst the Irish of Tara Hill for 12 years, they being in the king's hand by escheat of war, and requests . . . costs of his maintenance in . . . of the peace to destroy the Irish felons there, and he requests a commission on this. The lands have been unprofitable for the last 12 years because they are occupied by Irish felons.
Nature of endorsement
[The response is rendered largely illegible by an inappropriate repair].1) Concerning the first, he should show what he has of the grant . . .2) Concerning the second, let it be ordered to the justice that he . . .
Places mentioned
Oughterard, [County Kildare, Ireland]
Chastel Werney (Castlewarden), [County Kildare, Ireland]
Courtown, [County Wexford, Ireland]
Glascarroc (Glascarrig), [County Wexford, Ireland]
Torghel (Torchill, Tara Hill), [County Wexford, Ireland].
Note
The petition is dated to c. 1316 as it clearly post dates the original grant to the petitioner made on 14 May 1316, but is seems unlikely that the petitioner would have waited too long after this (CCR 1313-18, p.288).
Related material

For another petition by the same petitioner, see SC 8/135/6742

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. II, 1313-1318, (Public Record Office, 1893), p.288 (grant of the 100 marks of land)
  • 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.54 (brief calendar of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294341/

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