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William le Deveneys

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264: 134: 197: 66:(Chief Clerk), at a salary of 100 marks a year. His pluralism gave rise to a good deal of criticism: the contemporary view was that "these offices ought not to be held by one person", and it was probably as a result of such strictures that he was finally removed from office as Remembrancer (the Remembrancer's task was to prepare the 153:) in South County Dublin, "to hold of the King forever" in return for a twice-yearly payment of £7. He received other lands whose precise location is hard to determine, due to the archaic spelling of the place names in the 248:
He died in or shortly before 1319, being replaced on the Court of Common Pleas by William de la Hulle (19 August). His manor of Thorncastle was purchased after his death by his judicial colleague
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in the Royal Courts: no doubt the Crown was his main client, but he also worked for private individuals, including a certain Matilda, with whom he seems to have had a long association.
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but resigned from that office shortly afterwards: he was reappointed to the Common Pleas in 1313, apparently after vigorous lobbying by his friends on his behalf. He was appointed
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in 1282. He also received a grant of the lands adjacent to the Royal Forest. Glencree, however, proved to be an almost worthless gift: it was in the
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Booterstown, present day. In the Middle Ages, the district was called Thorncastle, where Deveneys had his Dublin estate.
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attached to the manor, in return for payment of a knight's fee, "this being to the King's advantage", according to the
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settlers in Ireland. William was probably a relative of Nicholas le Deveneys, who was summoned for service in the
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which was empanelled to advise on the matter. Thorncastle had previously been held by the professional
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on the site in the 1360s, and later became part of the vast Fitzwilliam holdings in South Dublin.
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Glencree: le Deveneys was granted lands here, but later complained that they were uninhabitable
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Justice for all? Access by ethnic groups to the English Royal Courts in Ireland 1252-1318
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in 1302, and of another William le Deveneys, who in 1327 made a grant of his lands at
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had fled, and that he would be obliged for his own safety to live closer to Dublin.
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to William Kenfeg. William is first heard of in 1278 when he was an official of the
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Calendar of Documents relating to Ireland preserved in the Public Records Office
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to obtain office as Keeper, but there seems to be no evidence of this.
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for 1312 suggests that the Crown wished him to act as a mediator in a
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in 1308 (one of the first recorded holders of the office), and was
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to be heard by the Exchequer). He became Keeper of the Royal
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He was clearly a valued Crown official: he was given twelve
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lands in Ireland in 1281. His enemies claimed that he had
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Ireland
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Anglo-Norman
Scottish War
Kells in Ossory
Exchequer of Ireland
Chief Remembrancer
Prothonotary
memoranda
lawsuits
demesne
bribed
cleric
oak trees
royal forest
Glencree
County Wicklow
Wicklow Mountains
Gaelic
O'Byrnes
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Edward I
carucates
Rathfarnham
Patent Rolls
Royal manor
County Dublin

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