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Community of the Cistercian order in England. King and council. The community of...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/8/360

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Reference
SC 8/8/360
Date
[1324-1325]
Description
Petitioners
Community of the Cistercian order in England.
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
The community of the Cistercian order in England states that, although they receive into their order, and ought to receive, people of every nation, provided that they are of good life and morals, the abbots of Ireland are refusing to admit Englishmen, but take only the Irish. The community requests a remedy for this.
Nature of endorsement
Coram rege et magno consilio.This petition is to be sent to the Justiciar of Ireland, and, when he has called together the council there, he is to ordain such a remedy as he sees is for the common advantage.
Places mentioned
Ireland
England.
People mentioned
Cistercian abbots in Ireland.
Note
Date given on the evidence of Rot. Parl. JRS Phillips (PROME, Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337) says that these petitions probably all do belong to 18 Edward II, although there is no indication that they were presented either at the non-parliamentary assembly of October 1324 or the parliament of June 1325.
Related material

A near-duplicate petition with a different endorsement is SC 8/8/359

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 3088
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • 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.8 (calendar reference)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.420b, no.14 (full edition of a later copy of the original document)
  • The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rot. Parl. vol. I, pp. 416-429, no. 14 (summary of references)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060484/

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