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Abbot of Baltinglass. King and council. Abbot of Baltinglass The Abbot asks to be...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/31/1534
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/31/1534
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1302]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Abbot of Baltinglass.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Occupation
- Abbot of Baltinglass
- Nature of request
- The Abbot asks to be allowed to pay a debt owed to Gerard Gymbard of the company of the Lucca in annual instalments of 10 marks. This debt is in the king's hand like the other debts of the Lucca in Ireland, and he has made recognisance for it in the Dublin Exchequer. He asks this as his house has been impoverished by robberies by the Irish, as the Justiciar of Ireland and other lords of the land who are here know.
- Nature of endorsement
- Coram rege.The king has granted that they are to pay 10 marks annually at the king's will until etc.
- Places mentioned
- Balkinglas (Baltinglass), [County Wicklow, Ireland]
- Dyvelyn (Dublin), [Ireland]
- Ireland.
- People mentioned
- Gerard Gymbard, [merchant] of the company of the Lucca.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated on the guard to 1302 on the basis of CCR 1296-1302 p.547, which is dated at Westminster, 8 August 1302. Also datable from the Latin summary enrolled on the roll of Irish petitions from the July parliament of 1302.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a petition from the abbot and convent, see SC 8/258/12871
For an unedited parliament roll containing a Latin summary of this petition, see m 2 of SC 9/25
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Parliamentary Petition 1254
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
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- Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw I, vol. IV, 1296-1302, (Public Record Office, 1906), p.547 (instructions to Treasurer and Barons of Dublin Exchequer to allow the abbot to pay his debt by instalments)
- Documents on the Affairs of Ireland before the King's Council , G.O. Sayles, (Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1979), pp.56-7 (no.69) (full edition)
- 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.11 (brief calendar)
- 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), roll 25, appendix, no.46 (full edition and translation)
- Two Hitherto Unpublished Membranes of Irish Petitions, Presented at the Midsummer Parliament of 1302 and the Lent Parliament of 1305, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, G. Hand, (Royal Irish Academy, 1971), pp.2-10 (edition of Latin summary of petition on parliament roll)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061730/
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