Catalogue description Petitioners: Alexander de Bicknor, Archbishop of Dublin. Name(s): de Bicknor,...

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Details of SC 8/16/782
Reference: SC 8/16/782
Description:
Petitioners: Alexander de Bicknor, Archbishop of Dublin.
Name(s): de Bicknor, Alexander
Addressees: King and council.
Occupation: Archbishop of Dublin
Nature of request: Alexander, Archbishop of Dublin, states that in the time of King Edward, the present king's father, a new assessment was made of the benefices of Ireland, because of the destruction of these benefices in war, and the archbishop was the collector of an annual tax granted to the king's father in Ireland, which the Treasurer and Barons of the Dublin Exchequer are now demanding from him according to a former assessment, made before the destruction of the benefices - some of which are completely ruined, some largely. He requests a remedy.
Nature of endorsement: A writ is to be issued, to receive the account according to the assessment and value of the churches at the time when the grant was made.
Places mentioned: Divelin, (Dublin), [Ireland]; Ireland.
People mentioned: Treasurer and barons of the Dublin Exchequer.
Note: Dated to 'c. 1327' by 'Irish Ancient Petitions', p.9 and on the guard to 'c. 1327 seq. ref. to arrears of... temp. Ed. II'. CCR 1327-30 p.145 (Topcliffe, 8 July 1327) mentions moneys from a tenth in Ireland.
Date: [c. 1327]
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Parliamentary Petition 2535
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

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.9 (brief calendar)

Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.404b (no. 147) (full edition of original petition)

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