Catalogue description Petitioners: William de Berdefeld (Bardfield). Name(s): de Berdefeld...

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Details of SC 8/92/4553
Reference: SC 8/92/4553
Description:
Petitioners: William de Berdefeld (Bardfield).
Name(s): de Berdefeld (Bardfield), William
Addressees: King and council.
Nature of request: 1) Berdefeld requests a reward for his long service to the king and his father as justice of the Irish Bench so that he has something to live on following his removal by Mortimer. He further requests payment of the arrears of his fee which the treasurer has been unable to pay because of the war against Bruce.2) He requests that it is commanded that restoration is made for the losses he has suffered from the war, his tenements being burnt, so that he can rebuild his houses and rents.3) He further requests that it is ordered to the treasurer by a writ that the debt due from a number of pledges for Nicholas de Staunford, of which he is one, be apportioned amongst all the pledges, and that he be pardoned his portion because of his losses.4) He requests remedy.1)
Nature of endorsement: Concerning the service, the king wishes to be certified of the reason of his removal, and will do on it what he pleases.2) Concerning the pardon etc. the king wishes to be certified of the business, and will do on it what he pleases.3) Coram rege.
Places mentioned: Dublin, [Ireland]; Kerry, [Ireland].
People mentioned: Roger le Mortimer, justice of Ireland; Robert le Bruce; Edward le Bruce; Nicholas de Staunford, then sheriff of Kerry.
Note: The petition is dated to 1321 on the basis of Sayles (Affairs, pp.103-4). Bardfield was removed in Michaelmas 1319, but the petition seems to date to after Mortimer's removal in 1321.
Date: [1321]
Related material:

For transcript, see no.4 of PRO 31/7/101
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Parliamentary Petition 538
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Documents on the Affairs of Ireland before the King's Council , G.O. Sayles, (Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1979), pp.103-104 (no.141) (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.32 (brief calendar of petition)

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