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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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 commonalty of Dublin. King and council. The mayor and commonalty request...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/82/4091
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This record is about the Mayor and commonalty of Dublin. King and council. The mayor and commonalty request... dating from [? 1320] 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 8/82/4091
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? 1320]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Mayor and commonalty of Dublin.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The mayor and commonalty request remedy concerning the frequent coming of the attorneys of the keeper of markets in Ireland claiming cognizance of all measures, weights and balances in the city, when the keeper should only come once a year and take an assize of standards of weights of the city delivered and made by the court of the king.
- Nature of endorsement
- It is ordered to the justice of Ireland that when he call the parties he should correct the grievances, and is to have observed what is to the benefit to the king and the city
- Places mentioned
- Dublin, [County Dublin, Ireland].
- People mentioned
- Keepers of measures and markets in Ireland.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- A note at the beginning of this file suggests that the petitions in it date to 1320. There is no other dating evidence for this petition so that the petition is dated speculatively in accordance with this to? 1320. Sayles thought it contemporary with SC 8/82/4090 but on what evidence is unclear.
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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 2856
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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), p.105 (no.143) (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), pp.28-9 (brief calendar of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9148631/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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