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Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Mayor and Commonality of Limerick. King. The petitioners ask for the arrears of their...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/58/2866
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This record is about the Mayor and Commonality of Limerick. King. The petitioners ask for the arrears of their... dating from [c. 1332] 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 8/58/2866
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1332]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Mayor and Commonality of Limerick.
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- The petitioners ask for the arrears of their farm to be pardoned as they are greatly impoverished by the warlike activities of the Irish of Thomond, McDermot and many others, who have knocked down Bunratty Castle and committed other outrages.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Limerick, [County Limerick, Ireland]
- Bonrat Castle (Bunratty Castle), [County Clare, Ireland]
- Thomond, [Ireland].
- People mentioned
- [...] McDermot.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The date is that suggested in 'Irish Ancient Petitions', p.20.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a related petition see SC 8/193/9637
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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 5321
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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.20 (brief calendar)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9063086/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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