Gilbert de Clare, son and heir of Thomas de Clare. de Clare Gilbert King. Clare requests...

Petitioners

Gilbert de Clare, son and heir of Thomas de Clare.

Name(s)

de Clare, Gilbert

Addressees

King.

Nature of request

Clare requests remedy concerning the keepership of the manor and park of Havering which his father bought from Mountfichet along with the bailiwick of the forest of Essex as he has petitioned several times at parliament and was answered that because the queen held the manor that Abel and East Dean should come and speak for her as to why Clare should not have the office. They stated that the office was taken into the queen's hand because Thomas de Clare's parker committed a great trespass against the queen, and the parker died in prison, Thomas de Clare died in Ireland, and it has remained in the queen's hand for default of suit and by the petitioner's minority.

Nature of endorsement

It is to be commanded by writ of Chancery to Abel that he appear before Brabazon and his colleagues at the quindene of Michaelmas to show or say what he knows as to why the keepership should not be delivered to Clare. If he does not show anything that is sufficient then Brabazon and the others are not to fail to do justice. Clare is to sue there if it seems expedient to him. The petition is to be sent to Brabazon under the king's seal of Chancery.

Places mentioned

Havering-atte-Bower, [Essex]

Essex forest, [Essex]

Ireland.

People mentioned

Thomas de Clare, father of the petitioner

Richard de Munfichet (Mountfichet)

John Abel

William de Eseden (East Dean)

Roger Brabanzon (Brabazon).

For a copy of Henry III's inspeximus of Mountfichet to Clare, see SC 8/178/8900

• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.205a-b (no.76) (Latin summary of petition on parliament roll)
• 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), Vetus Codex 1307, appendix, no.98 (full edition and translation)