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Brother Henry de Bedeford (Bedford), Master of the Order of St Thomas of Canterbury...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/259/12926

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Reference
SC 8/259/12926
Date
[? c. 1318]
Description
Petitioners
Brother Henry de Bedeford (Bedford), Master of the Order of St Thomas of Canterbury of Acre.
Name(s)
de Bedeford (Bedford), Henry
Addressees
King and council.
Occupation
Master of the Order of St Thomas of Canterbury of Acre
Nature of request
Brother Henry de Bedeford, Master of the Order of St Thomas of Canterbury of Acre, states that the ancestors of the Earl of Pembroke gave them various lands in Ireland, together with the house of John the Baptist, Kilkenny, as can be seen from the bill attached to this petition, but that since the fall of Acre, these have been occupied and lost to them. They ask the King and council to ordain for their recovery of this house and land.
Nature of endorsement
The Justiciar of Ireland is to be ordered that, when he has seen the charters and muniments that the master and brothers have for the tenements named here, he is to give them full justice in this matter as duly and swiftly as can be done according to the law and custom of those parts, on account of the devotion that the King has for the aforesaid order.
Places mentioned
Carrick, [County Wexford], Ireland
Buttevant, [County Cork], Ireland
Kilkenny, [County Kilkenny], Ireland
Acre (Akko), [Israel].
People mentioned
House of John the Baptist, Kilkenny
[Aymer de Valence], Earl of Pembroke.
Note
There are mentions of the petitioner in CPR 1317-21 p.205 (4 September 1318) and p.260 (16 December 1318), which give a rough date for the petition.
Related material

For the bill mentioned by this petition, see SC 8/259/12927

For another petition by the same petitioner, but on a different matter, see SC 8/94/4657

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
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.83 (brief calendar of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9440539/

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