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Petitioners

Roger de Mortimer, earl of March.

Name(s)

de Mortimer, earl of March, Roger

Addressees

King.

Nature of request

Mortimer requests the delivery of certain lands and rents which are of his inheritance, but which were seized into the king's hand after the death of Mortimer's grandfather:1) Land and rent in Collington and Little Cowarne.2) Rent to be taken from the hands of the sheriffs of Shropshire and Staffordshire.3) Rent from Bromsgrove and Norton.4) Land in Ireland.5) Reversion of the manor of Rathwire in Ireland.6) He requests the profits of all his lands for three years after his death if he should die on the voyage whilst his son is within age to acquit his debts.7) He requests release from the fee farm of the castle of Montgomery and the hundred of Chirbury of which he is charged to pay the prince of Wales.8) He requests pardon of all reliefs incurred in reversing the judgment against his grandfather.9) No man of Meath be impleaded before the treasurer and barons of the Dublin Exchequer if they are not ministers assigned by commission of the Exchequer.

Nature of endorsement

[On face:]1) It pleases the king that this is done without viewing the inquisition.2) It pleases the king that this is done.3) The king wishes that this is done and the charter viewed.4) The king wishes that he have what he demands.5) The king wishes that the earl have what he demands if the reversion is to the king.6) It pleases the king that if the earl dies on the voyage his executors should have the issues until they have received £6,000.7) Afterwards that it be charged to the prince that it is right that he be discharged towards the king.8) The king wishes that this be done.9) Let it be ordered to the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer that people of the liberty are not treated in pleas otherwise than people of the other earls of Ireland.

Places mentioned

Collington, Herefordshire

Little Cowarne, Herefordshire

Bromsgrove, Worcestershire

Norton, Worcestershire

Ireland

Rawier (Rathwire), [County Westmeath, Ireland]

Montgomery, [Montgomeryshire]

Chirbury, [Shropshire]

Meath, [Ireland].

People mentioned

[Roger de Mortimer], grandfather of the petitioner

Joan [de Mortimer], wife of the earl's grandfather

John Darcy 'the kinsman'

Joan [Darcy], wife of John Darcy

[Edward of Woodstock], Prince of Wales.

For the letter of privy seal with which this petition was formerly enclosed see no. 9 in C 81/908