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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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James le Botiller (Butler), Earl of Ormond. Botiller (Butler), Earl of Ormond James...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/93/4606
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/93/4606
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1332]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- James le Botiller (Butler), Earl of Ormond.
- Name(s)
- Botiller (Butler), Earl of Ormond, James
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- [The petition is very badly damaged and the details are supplied from the duplicate.]1) Botiller requests pardon of the debts that he and his ancestors owe, as he has been put to great cost maintaining the peace and has lost men, horses and armour.2) Botiller requests that he be discharged from rendering the account for lands destroyed in wartime from the time of his ancestors, as the tallies of payments and other things were burnt by felons when he was a minor and they were in the king's hand.3) Botiller requests that he be re-granted the liberty of Tipperary to support him as it was granted to him for life by the king after he was made earl and then subsequently retaken into the king's hand, or that he can have lands and rents elsewhere in allowance of this.4) Botiller requests the grant for life of the prise of wines in Ireland which he and his ancestors had until Lucy's time rendering as much as his ancestors rendered.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Ireland
- County Tipperary, [Ireland].
- People mentioned
- Breen Obreen
- Anthony de Lucy, late justice of Ireland.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition dates to 1332 as the duplicate is answered by a writ and return of writ dating to 1332 and 1334 respectively (SC 8/271/13541-3).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For the reply to this petition see C 49/7/5
For a duplicate of this petition see SC 8/271/13543
For another petition by the same petitioner, see SC 8/177/8808
For another petition from the same petitioner, see SC 8/12/558
Return to SC 8/271/13541, and being a schedule of debts of Theobald, Edmund and James le Botiller SC 8/271/13542
For a writ of certiorari enquiring of the debts owed by the petitioner see SC 8/271/13541
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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 658
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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.154-5 (no.174) (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.33 (reference that this is a duplicate of SC 8/271/13543)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149156/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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