Irish judge
John Fitzadam (died c.1419) was an Irish judge of the late fourteenth and early fifteenth century. He is notable for his very long tenure as Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas; he held the office for twenty-three years, in the reigns of three English Kings.
Complaint by the Prior of Mullingar.
On an unknown date "in the reign of Henry IV" (1399-1413), he and his fellow justices heard an action for debt brought against the Prior of Mullingar by the Prior of Llanthony Priory in Monmouthshire. ;ref name=Roll ;"Patent Roll 5 Henry VI" ;/ref ; Many years later, in 1427, the Prior of Mullingar petitioned the Privy Council, claiming that there was a manifest error in the judgment, by which he had suffered grievous injury. The Council ordered Richard Ashwell, the Master of the Rolls in Ireland, to make a full inquiry into the matter, and to bring his report before the next session of the Irish Parliament, so that the injustice, if any, might be corrected.
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