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John de Fresingfeld de Fresingfeld John King John de Fresingfeld makes three requests:1)...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/80/3978
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/80/3978
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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
- John de Fresingfeld
- Name(s)
- de Fresingfeld, John
- Addressees
- King
- Nature of request
- John de Fresingfeld makes three requests:1) He asks for the king's grace with regard to the chattels of French merchants which came into his hands during the war between the kings of England and France, for which he is charged at the Dublin Exchequer.2) He asks for the king's grace in the matter of a debt which Thomas Fitz David owed the king. He holds a quarter of Thomas' lands, in the march, whereas the rest of his lands are in land of peace, and their tenants quite capable of paying: although his heirs have nothing, as he alienated all his possessions when he entered religion.3) He requests free warren in his lands in Cookley and Rughagh in Suffolk, and in Lynn and Inchirourke in Ireland; and markets in Lynn and Fennor, near Inchirourke.
- Nature of endorsement
- Item: the King wills that with regard to the debts that he owes for the goods of the merchants, he is to pay in instalments, that is, 20 marks annually.Item: the King wills that he have a market and a warren as he asks.Item: the King has granted that John is to be pardoned the proportion that falls to him of the debt.
- Places mentioned
- France
- Dublin, [County Dublin, Ireland]
- Cookley, Suffolk
- Ruhaghe (Rughagh), Suffolk
- Lynn, [County Westmeath, Ireland]
- Incherory (Inchirourke), [County Tipperary, Ireland]
- Fynnoure (Fennor), [County Tipperary, Ireland].
- People mentioned
- Thomas Fitz David
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- CCR 1296-1302 p.516 is dated 17 February 1302, and would seem to be in response to this petition; and both the grants in CChR 1300-26 p.56 are also dated 17 February 1302.'Irish Ancient Petitions' pp.26-7 dates this petition to 1302 on this evidence.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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A petition which appears to be another part of this one is SC 8/47/2349
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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 4493
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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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- Calendar of Charter Rolls, vol. III, Edw I and Edw II, 1300-1326, (Public Record Office, 1908), p.24 (grant to John de Fresingfeld of a weekly market in his manors of Fennor, County Tipperary, and Lynn, County Meath, and a free warren in all his demesne lands in these manors, and a grant to John de Fresingfeld of a free warren in all his demesne lands in the manors of Cookley and Rughagh in Suffolk)
- Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw I, vol. IV, 1296-1302, (Public Record Office, 1906), p.516 (order to the Treasurer and Barons of the Dublin Exchequer to allow the petitioner to pay the 85 marks from the goods of the French merchants in instalments)
- 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), pp.26-7 (brief calendar)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9107754/
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