Maurice de Carreu. de Carreu Maurice King. Maurice de Carreu makes two requests:1)...

Petitioners

Maurice de Carreu.

Name(s)

de Carreu, Maurice

Addressees

King.

Nature of request

Maurice de Carreu makes two requests:1) He states that he holds half of Desmond of the king, for the service of thirty knights, and that his ancestors enfeoffed various people with various of these services, including Maurice Fitz Gerald with the cantred of Athlacca in 'O Carbre', for the service of eight knights. Maurice Fitz Gerald died, and his lands came into the king's keeping, at the time when Maurice de Carreu was in his wardship. When he came of age he went to the Dublin Exchequer and asked for the services from these lands, but was told by the Treasurer and Barons that they would do nothing without a special warrant because they found the king seised of them. He requests a remedy.2) He states that John Wogan, Chief Justice of Ireland, took his lordship of Fermoy into the king's hand, because Maurice de Carreu granted two-thirds of the lordship to Maurice de Caunteton. Maurice de Caunteton pleaded by a writ of rescue of livestock in the king's eyre in Cork, and David de la Roche, son of Alexander de la Roche, then brought a false accusation that Maurice de Carreu had created a mesne lord between him and the king, although Maurice did no such thing, but continued to hold in the way in which the king and his ancestors enfeoffed him and his ancestors. Maurice requests an inquiry into this, and a remedy.

Nature of endorsement

The king wills that orders be given about the first petition mentioned here to the Treasurer and Barons of the Dublin Exchequer, and about the second petition to the the Justiciar of Ireland, that they should inform the king, clearly and openly, concerning all the articles and circumstances touching the same petitions.

Places mentioned

Desmond lordship, [Ireland]

Athlackach (Athlacca), [County Limerick, Ireland]

O Carbre [unidentified], [County Cork, Ireland]

Fermoy, [County Cork, Ireland]

Cork, [County Cork, Ireland].

People mentioned

Maurice Fitz Gerald

John Wogan, Chief Justice of Ireland

Maurice de Caunteton

David de la Roche

Alexander de la Roche.

For a related petition, see SC 8/199/9933

• Calendar of Chancery Warrants, 1244-1326, (Public Record Office, 1927), p.197 (calendar of warrant with which this petition may have been enclosed)
• 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.93 (brief calendar of petition)