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Nicholas, Archdeacon of Ferns. Nicholas Chancellor. Archdeacon of Ferns Nicholas,...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/297/14823

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Reference
SC 8/297/14823
Date
[1285]
Description
Petitioners
Nicholas, Archdeacon of Ferns.
Name(s)
Nicholas
Addressees
Chancellor.
Occupation
Archdeacon of Ferns
Nature of request
Nicholas, Archdeacon of Ferns, who is blind and ill, states that he was executor of the testament of Adam de St John, and that William Waspayl, with the collusion of the Justiciar of Ireland, is impleading him as executor for a certain debt, before the Barons of the Dublin Exchequer. And although such cases ought not to be heard there, they are nevertheless forcing him to answer before them for this. He requests a remedy.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Ferns, [County Wexford, Ireland]
Dublin, [Ireland].
People mentioned
Adam de Sancto Johanne (St John)
William Waspayl, knight.
Note
Dated to 1285 by Sayles and Connolly, based on Cal. Docs Ireland, vol. II, no.2361.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Chancery Files 39.
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Documents Relating to Ireland, 1171-1307, vol. II, ed. H.S. Sweetman, (Public Record Office, 1974), no.2361 (translation of petition)
  • Calendar of Documents Relating to Ireland, 1171-1307, vol. III, ed. H.S. Sweetman, (Public Record Office, 1974), no.35 (calendar of related writ)
  • Documents on the Affairs of Ireland before the King's Council , G.O. Sayles, (Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1979), pp.32-33 (full edition of petition)
  • 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.94 (brief calendar of petition)
  • The History of King John, King Henry III, and the Most Illustrious King Edward I, vol. III, W. Prynne, (, 1670), p.435 (edition of petition) & p.1274 (edition of petition)
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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9518024/

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