Catalogue description Petitioners: Edward le Despenser, knight. Name(s): Despenser, Edward ...

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Details of SC 8/226/11298
Reference: SC 8/226/11298
Description:
Petitioners: Edward le Despenser, knight.
Name(s): Despenser, Edward
Addressees: King.
Nature of request: Despenser requests that he be granted livery of his lands and issues of Killoteran which are in right of his wife as the same has been seized by the justices and escheators of those parts and are still held because the same were not defended in the time of war, and having regard that Despenser has in that time been out of the realm in the king's service.
Nature of endorsement: [On face:]Let it be done, by the king.[On dorse, none].
Places mentioned: Killoteran, [Co. Waterford], Ireland.
People mentioned: Elizabeth [le Despenser], wife of the petitioner, and daughter of Bartholomew de Burgherssh; Bartholomew de Burwasshe (Burghersshe).
Note: The petition dates to 1373 as the lands were restored to the petitioner on 4 March 1373 (CPR 1370-4, p.285).
Date: [1373]
Related material:

For a related petition see SC 8/207/10303
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. XV, 1370-1374, (Public Record Office, 1914), p.285 (restoration of the lands to the petitioner)

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.72 (calendar of petition with references)

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