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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Walter Calf, Bishop of Kildare Calf Walter The king Bishop of Kildare The petitioner...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/55/2720
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/55/2720
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1302]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Walter Calf, Bishop of Kildare
- Name(s)
- Calf, Walter
- Addressees
- The king
- Occupation
- Bishop of Kildare
- Nature of request
- The petitioner seeks recovery for his church of an annual payment of ten marks for the castle of Kildare (which is built on church land) because he cannot distrain for it as his predecessors had done. He shows that the payment was made by Vescy and his ancestors until a dispute arose between Vescy and bishop Nicholas (the petitioner's predecessor) about other things in the county of Kildare and Vescy arbitrarily withheld payment for three years before the death of bishop Nicholas. John Wogan and other officials found that the payment had not been made since Kildare came into the king's hands and refused to allow payment without orders from the king.
- Nature of endorsement
- Coram Rege.Enquiry is to be made by writ of chancery if rent is owed and from what time, for what reason, from whence it comes, by whom it was withdrawn, since when and for what reason, and they are to inform the king.
- Places mentioned
- Kildare, [County Kildare, Ireland]
- Irlande (Ireland)
- People mentioned
- William de Vescy
- Nicholas [Cusack], Bishop of Kildare
- John Wogan, Justiciar of Ireland
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Firmly dated to 1302 in PROME and other modern editions.
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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 4637
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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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- Documents on the Affairs of Ireland before the King's Council , G.O. Sayles, (Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1979), pp.57-8 (no.71) (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.19 (brief calendar)
- The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), roll 25, appendix, no.49 (full edition and translation)
- Two Hitherto Unpublished Membranes of Irish Petitions, Presented at the Midsummer Parliament of 1302 and the Lent Parliament of 1305, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, G. Hand, (Royal Irish Academy, 1971), pp.2-10 (edition of Latin summary of petition on parliament roll)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062938/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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