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Richard le Blount of Arklow Blount Richard King Blount requests that the king grant...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/34/1687

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Reference
SC 8/34/1687
Date
[c. 1320]
Description
Petitioners
Richard le Blount of Arklow
Name(s)
Blount, Richard
Addressees
King
Nature of request
Blount requests that the king grant that the prior of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem and Blount and his wife be able to exchange lands of the prior held of the king in Clontarf, for Blount's lands in Killester and Raheny.
Nature of endorsement
The council of parliament will not assent that the king will lose anything of his fee.
Places mentioned
Arklow, [County Wicklow, Ireland]
Clontarf, [County Dublin, Ireland]
Kilastre (Killester), [County Dublin, Ireland]
Rathenni (Raheny), [County Dublin, Ireland]
Dublin, [County Dublin, Ireland]
People mentioned
Prior of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem in Ireland
Prior of the Trinity, Dublin
Abbot of Our Lady, beside Dublin
Note
The guard dates this to? 1320. There seems to be little evidence to confirm this date other than the date adopted for SC 8/90/4495.
Related material

For another petition by the same petitioner see SC 8/90/4495

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 428
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.12 (brief calendar of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061886/

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