John de Pembroke (died after 1377) was a
Welsh-born judge who held several senior offices in Ireland, including that of
Chancellor of the Exchequer of Ireland
The Chancellor of the Exchequer of Ireland was the head of the Exchequer of Ireland and a member of the Dublin Castle administration under the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in the Kingdom of Ireland. In early times the title was sometimes given as ...
.
[Ball p.79]
He was born in
Pembrokeshire.
[ Nothing is known of his family. He was in the service of the English Crown by 1348. He was then appointed third Baron of the ]Court of Exchequer (Ireland)
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.[''Patent Roll 25 Edward III''] He became Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1350 and subsequently Escheator
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of Ireland.debts
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, receipts, accounts, allowances and assignments in the Exchequer in Dublin
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.[''Patent Roll 35 Edward III'' ]
He was still living in 1377, when he petitioned the Crown for repayment of the expenses incurred in his recent journey to County Meath with Alexander de Balscot, the Lord Treasurer of Ireland, to levy the King's debts and transact all of the King's other business, for which he had received no reward.[Smyth p.145] On foot of his petition he was awarded £4.[''Patent Roll 50 Edward III'']
A second John of Pembroke, who was also a Baron of the Irish Exchequer in the 1380s, was probably a relative of the first John.[Ball p.89]
References
*Ball, F. Elrington ''The Judges in Ireland 1221-1921'' John Murray 2 Volumes London 1926
*Smyth, Constantine Joseph ''A Chronicle of the Law Officers of Ireland'' London Butterworths 1839
Notes
Chancellors of the Exchequer of Ireland
People from Pembrokeshire
Irish people of Welsh descent
Year of birth unknown
Barons of the Irish Exchequer
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