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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Item
Burge Gras. Gras Burge King and council Gras requests that she be granted a charter...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/49/2435
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This record is about the Burge Gras. Gras Burge King and council Gras requests that she be granted a charter... dating from [c. 1325-c. 1350] 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 8/49/2435
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1325-c. 1350]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Burge Gras.
- Name(s)
- Gras, Burge
- Addressees
- King and council
- Nature of request
- Gras requests that she be granted a charter of pardon for all manner of felonies, trespasses and excesses which she is indicted of for her adherence to the Burkes and Geraldines who levied war in many parts of Ireland, as she was forced to do so against her will.
- Nature of endorsement
- Coram rege.
- Places mentioned
- Ireland.
- People mentioned
- Burkes
- Geraldines.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated here very tentatively to the second quarter of the fourteenth century, on the basis of the hand.
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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 3639
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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)
- 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.16 (brief calendar of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062648/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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