? No Petitioner named Copy of a writ of Edward I to the sheriff of Meath commanding...

Petitioners

? No Petitioner named

Nature of request

Copy of a writ of Edward I to the sheriff of Meath commanding him to take the lands in Balymacgilkeran into the king's hand and to summon the abbot of Beaubec to be before the justices on the octave of St Hillary to answer for his failure to appear before the justices in eyre.1)

Nature of endorsement

One messuage, 2 carucates of land, 20 acres of meadow, and 60 acres of pasture with appurtenances . . . Balymacgilkeran were taken into the king's hand on Thursday before the feast of St Thomas the Apostle in the 33 year by the view of Blund, Leggesirth, Leynagh and Fitz Roger.2) Lex xv Pasche.3) Summoned for the abbot of Beaubec: . . .

Places mentioned

Balymacgilkeran [unidentified], [County Meath, Ireland]

Beaubec, [County Meath, Ireland]

Drogheda, [Ireland]

Dublin, [Ireland].

People mentioned

Edward I, King of England

Sheriff of Meath

Abbot of Beaubec

Richard le Blund

John Leggesirth

Walter Leynagh

Peter Fitz Roger

John le W. . .heys

William Bro. . ..

For a related mandate with which this writ was formerly enclosed, see SC 8/271/13507

For the petition with which this writ was formerly enclosed, see SC 8/271/13509

For a related plea roll with which this mandate was formerly enclosed, see SC 8/271/13510

For a related writ with which this writ was formerly enclosed, see SC 8/271/13505

• 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.88 (calendar of writ)
• 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.502 (summary of writ)