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Richard le Blund. Blund Richard King. Blund requests that he be granted the liberty...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/90/4495

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Reference
SC 8/90/4495
Date
[1319]
Description
Petitioners
Richard le Blund.
Name(s)
Blund, Richard
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Blund requests that he be granted the liberty that he be exempted from all offices in Ireland except attending to the king and his council there in the office of sergeant.
Nature of endorsement
… if it pleases the king.
Note
The petition can be dated to 1319 by a grant of exemption made on 6 June 1319 (CPR 1317-21, p.344).
Related material

For another petition by the same petitioner see SC 8/34/1687

For transcript, see no.10 of PRO 31/7/95

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 447
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1317-1321, (Public Record Office, 1903), p.344 (grant of exemption)
  • 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.31 (brief calendar of petition)
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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149041/

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