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Mayor and Citizens of Dublin. King and council 1) The petitioners request remedy...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/44/2182

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This record is about the Mayor and Citizens of Dublin. King and council 1) The petitioners request remedy... dating from [1281] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/44/2182
Date
[1281]
Description
Petitioners
Mayor and Citizens of Dublin.
Addressees
King and council
Nature of request
1) The petitioners request remedy concerning their right to plead in the city of all manner of debt as they ought not to go beyond the city to plead their debts.2) Request that they be restored to their piece of land that they hold in the bounds of the city, of which they were disseised because of an inquisition requested by Botiller to which they were not summoned, reciting a writ of the Lord Edward to his justice Davy de Barry.3) Request concerning liberties and customs of the citizens and their privilege not to pay tolls etc., reciting two writs of Edward I.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Dublin, [Ireland]
Longford next to Salisbury (Longford Castle), [Wiltshire]
People mentioned
Adam de Helmiswell, citizen of Dublin
Tybaud le Botiller
Davy de Barry, Justice of Ireland
Edward of Westminster
Robert de Ufford, Justice of Ireland
William de Arclo
Stephen, Bishop of Waterford.
Note
The petition is identified as a petition of the Dublin parliament of Easter 1281 (Irish Parliament, p.298).
Related material

For another portion of this petition see SC 8/44/2183

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 2646
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French and Latin
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.15 (brief calendar of petition)
  • The Irish Parliament in the Middle Ages , H.G. Richardson and G.O. Sayles, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1952), pp.298-300 (transcription and translation of a portion of this petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062392/

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