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Robert de Wikeford, Archbishop of Dublin. de Wikeford Robert King and council. Archbishop...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/212/10577

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Reference
SC 8/212/10577
Date
[1379]
Description
Petitioners
Robert de Wikeford, Archbishop of Dublin.
Name(s)
de Wikeford, Robert
Addressees
King and council.
Occupation
Archbishop of Dublin
Nature of request
Request for a grant of the manor of Swords, granted to Comyn by Henry III on condition that he maintained a castle at Castlekevin and which is now in the king's hands as an inquisition taken by Dagworth found that the castle is no longer maintained.
Nature of endorsement
Let this bill be sent into the chancery, where the chancellor, calling to him the justices and king's sergeants, will do right.
Places mentioned
Dublin, [Ireland]
Castlekevin, [County Wicklow, Ireland]
Swords, [County Dublin, Ireland]
St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, [Ireland]
County Kildare, [Ireland]
County Dublin, [Ireland].
People mentioned
Henry III, King of England
John Comyn, Archbishop of Dublin
Nicholas Dagworth.
Note
Dated by Sayles, Affairs, pp. 250-1, and see SC 8/212/10571-10576, 10578-10579.
Related material

For a writ connected with this petition see SC 8/212/10571

For an inquisition related to this petition see SC 8/212/10579

For a writ resulting from this petition see SC 8/212/10578

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous, vol. IV, 1-12 Ric II, (Public Record Office, 1957), pp.58-9 (no.92) (calendar of this and related documents)
  • Documents on the Affairs of Ireland before the King's Council , G.O. Sayles, (Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1979), p.250-251 (edition of petition with references)
  • 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.67 (calendar of petition with references)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9334134/

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