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Brothers Preacher (Dominicans) in Ireland. King. The Brothers Preacher in Ireland...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/53/2639

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This record is about the Brothers Preacher (Dominicans) in Ireland. King. The Brothers Preacher in Ireland... dating from [1291] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/53/2639
Date
[1291]
Description
Petitioners
Brothers Preacher (Dominicans) in Ireland.
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
The Brothers Preacher in Ireland make five requests:1) They ask that they might be able to receive new sites to occupy at Kilmallock and Rathangan, and to expand their sites there and elsewhere in Ireland where they are in need.2) They ask that merchants and other friends of the order might be able to bequeath buildings, stalls and other things of that kind to them, and that they might be able to receive them and sell them to others.3) They request the king's letters of protection for themselves and their possessions.4) They request murage in New Ross, for as long as the king wishes, to build a bridge there.5) They request some maintenance, for the sake of the queen's soul.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Kilmallock, [County Limerick], Ireland
Rathymegan (Rathangan), [County Kildare, Ireland]
Ross (New Ross), [County Wexford], Ireland.
People mentioned
[Eleanor of Castile], Queen of England.
Note
'Irish Ancient Petitions' p.17 dates this petition to 1291.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 4244
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Documents Relating to Ireland, 1171-1307, vol. III, ed. H.S. Sweetman, (Public Record Office, 1974), no.967 (Calendar of inquisition into the expulsion of the Dominicans from their site at Kilmallock by the Bishop of Limerick)
  • Documents on the Affairs of Ireland before the King's Council , G.O. Sayles, (Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1979), pp.36-7 (no.49) (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.17 (brief calendar)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062855/

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