Nicholas Mac Maoil Iosa, archbishop of Armagh. Mac Maoil Iosa Nicholas King. archbishop...

Petitioners

Nicholas Mac Maoil Iosa, archbishop of Armagh.

Name(s)

Mac Maoil Iosa, Nicholas

Addressees

King.

Occupation

archbishop of Armagh

Nature of request

[Petition in 2 parts with a recited writ].1) The archbishop requests that the king's will in the writ granted to the archbishop concerning the appointment of attorneys be adjudged according to the nature of the writ, namely that he is able to have attorneys in pleas for and against him pending the dispute in the court of Rome concerning the dispute over the primacy of archbishops in Ireland. The justices of the Bench only wished to allow attorneys when he is impleaded.2) Copy of a writ of Edward I to Robert de Ufford, justice of Ireland ordering him to admit the archbishop of Armagh's attorneys in all matters touching the archbishop where the archbishop is unable to attend in person because of the dispute concerning the primacy of the archbishops in Ireland.3) The archbishop requests the king's charter concerning his purchase of two carucates of land in Kilcloher, the inquisition concerning which remained unanswered in parliament and remains in the custody of Roubiry, and the archbishop requests that the inquisition be answered.

Nature of endorsement

[None]

Places mentioned

Ireland

Dublin, [Ireland]

Rome, [Italy]

Kilcloher, [County Clare, Ireland].

People mentioned

Robert Bagod (Bagot), chief justice of the Irish Bench

Robert de Ufford, justice of Ireland

[Gilbert] de Roubiry (Rothbury), clerk.

For the inquisition ad quod damnum relating to the third part of this petition, see C 143/30/16

• Calendar of Documents Relating to Ireland, 1171-1307, vol. IV, ed. H.S. Sweetman, (Public Record Office, 1974), p.288 (no.605) (writ and inquisition relating to third part of this petition)
• Documents on the Affairs of Ireland before the King's Council , G.O. Sayles, (Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1979), pp.48-9 (no.60) (full 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.59 (brief calendar of petition)