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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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John de Balscote (Balscott); Ralph de Balscote (Balscott), brother of John de Balscott....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/31/1535
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This record is about the John de Balscote (Balscott); Ralph de Balscote (Balscott), brother of John de Balscott.... dating from [1320] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/31/1535
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1320]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John de Balscote (Balscott); Ralph de Balscote (Balscott), brother of John de Balscott.
- Name(s)
- de Balscote (Balscott); de Balscote (Balscott), John; Ralph
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- John de Balscote and his brother Ralph request a messuage with its appurtenances in the suburb of Dublin which belonged to Nicholas de Balscote, and that they might hold it for the assessment returned in Chancery. It was devised to them by Nicholas, but taken into the king's hand for an account which he owed him.
- Nature of endorsement
- The Chancellor of Ireland is to be ordered by a writ of Chancery to inquire into the true value of this land, and according to this it is to be leased to those named here.
- Places mentioned
- Divelin (Dublin), [County Dublin, Ireland]
- Ireland.
- People mentioned
- Nicholas de Balscote (Balscott).
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated on the guard to 1320, with reference to CCR 1318-23 p.273, which is dated at Westminster, 24 October 1320.
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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 1234
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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 II, vol. III, 1318-1323, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.273 (order to the Treasurer and Barons of the Dublin Exchequer to assess the value of the messuage mentioned in the petition, and to deliver it to the petitioners for that sum)
- Documents on the Affairs of Ireland before the King's Council , G.O. Sayles, (Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1979), p.102 (no.139) (full edition of petition)
- 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)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061731/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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