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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Mayor and Commonalty of Dublin. King The mayor and commonalty request that the lieutenant...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/82/4090
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/82/4090
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1321]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Mayor and Commonalty of Dublin.
- Addressees
- King
- Nature of request
- The mayor and commonalty request that the lieutenant justice be ordered to give them speedy remedy according to the law as they are attacked and robbed by the people of the marches when they leave the city for business or to sell for the sustenance of the city. They are also given to understand by warnings from many people that the Scots are coming towards their parts with great strength.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Dublin, [Ireland].
- People mentioned
- [Thomas Fitz John Fitz Gerald], Earl of Kildare, Lieutenant Justice of Ireland
- [Roger] Mortimer.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition dates to 1321 as the earl of Kildare was deputy justice from September 1320 to 30 June 1321, and justiciar from 30 June 1321 to 1 October 1321 (Sayles, Affairs, pp.105-6). The date in the last line is therefore 7 October 1321.
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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 2873
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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.105-6 (no.144) (full edition of petition)
- Historic and Municipal Documents of Ireland, A.D. 1172-1320, J.T. Gilbert, (Rolls Series, vol. LIII, 1870), pp.391-2 (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.28 (brief calendar of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9148630/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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