John de Seleby (Selby). de Seleby (Selby) John King and Council. John de Seleby requests...

Petitioners

John de Seleby (Selby).

Name(s)

de Seleby (Selby), John

Addressees

King and Council.

Nature of request

John de Seleby requests that he be restored to his office of usher of the Irish Exchequer. He states that he did not receive official letters of appointment because the chancellor did not know the terms of the commission to his predecessor, instead issuing a writ to the treasurer and barons of the Dublin exchequer to grant him the position. However, because he had no patent, Ballygaveran suggested that he held the office without warrant, and ousted him. Selby states that he held the office loyally for eight years, as attested to the Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield and to Grenefeld by numerous officials, and also notes that Ballygaveran is pure Irish and not suitable to hold the office.

Nature of endorsement

[on face] Bardelby.[on dorse] Coram Rege.The treasurer and barons are instructed that, if he is pure Irish and not suitable, then he is to be removed from the office and Seleby admitted, and they are to inform the king so that letters patent are made for him. [cancelled]It is attested before the council by the justiciar and treasurer of Ireland and others that William is pure Irish and insufficient to retain the office, and that John has held the office well and faithfully. It was agreed by the council that William be removed and that the office be committed to John to hold as long as he behaves well and faithfully etc.Ireland.

Places mentioned

Ireland

Dublin, [Ireland].

People mentioned

Chancellor of Ireland

Robert de Bardelby

Walter del Escheker (Exchequer, Scaccario)

John de Langton, chancellor of England

William Ballygaveran

Walter [Langton], Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield

William de Grenefeld (Greenfield).

For the copy of the writ formerly attached to this petition see SC 8/218/10858

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• Memoranda de Parliamento, or Records of the Parliament holden at Westminster, 25 Edw I, Ed. F.W. Maitland, (Rolls Series, vol. XCVIII, 1893), pp.246-248 (no.433) (full edition and Latin summary)
• 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), roll 12, appendix, no.516 (full edition and translation)