David Mac Cearbhaill (Mac Carwill), Archbishop of Cashel. Mac Cearbhaill (Mac Carwill)...

Petitioners

David Mac Cearbhaill (Mac Carwill), Archbishop of Cashel.

Name(s)

Mac Cearbhaill (Mac Carwill), David

Addressees

King.

Occupation

Archbishop of Cashel

Nature of request

[This petition is fragmentary] The Archbishop of Cashel makes four petitions:1) He asks that he might not be further harassed concerning the testament of Reginald Maccotir, clerk and citizen of Cashel, as he died as a faithful Christian, and made a testament long before his death. It is claimed that he was a usurer, but the bishop states that long before his death, at the command of the pope, he ceased from this practice and made satisfaction.2) He asks that £400 that Reginald is alleged to have owed the king might not be demanded from him, requesting an inquest of faithful merchants of Ireland into the matter.3) [This petition is fragmentary] He asks that a prison might not be built.4) [This petition is fragmentary] Item whereas the same archbishop was . . . worth 3 marks to a certain . . . previously, with two or . . . another claiming . . . in the absence . . . .

Nature of endorsement

[None]

Places mentioned

Cashel, [County Tipperary, Ireland]

London

Bristol.

People mentioned

Reginald Maccotir, clerk

John de Gysorz

Henry . . .

John . . .

For a related petition see SC 8/309/15449

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw I, vol. I, 1272-1279, (Public Record Office, 1900), p.18 (order to put the demand for £400 in respite until Hilary next)
• 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.105 (brief calendar of petition)
• The History of King John, King Henry III, and the Most Illustrious King Edward I, vol. III, W. Prynne, (, 1670), pp.1209-10 (edition of petition)