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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Mayor and Citizens of Cork. King and Council. The petitioners ask to be allowed to...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/103/5122
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This record is about the Mayor and Citizens of Cork. King and Council. The petitioners ask to be allowed to... dating from [c. 1378-c. 1379] 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 8/103/5122
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1378-c. 1379]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Mayor and Citizens of Cork.
- Addressees
- King and Council.
- Nature of request
- The petitioners ask to be allowed to take the prise of wines in the ports of Youghal and Kinsale, because merchants are landing wine there to avoid payment at Cork. They show that they hold the city at fee farm, and pay the farm from the prises of wines brought into their port by ships.
- Nature of endorsement
- An order to the chancellor and treasurer of Ireland that he inspects his charter and hears this complaint and makes as for the king as for them, as he sees it is to be done.Coram Rege.
- Places mentioned
- Ireland
- Cork, [County Cork, Ireland]
- Youghal, [County Cork, Ireland]
- Kinsale, [County Cork, Ireland].
- People mentioned
- Chancellor of Ireland.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The date suggested on the dorse, 1378-9, is followed by Sayles, Affairs, p. 247 and Connolly, 'Irish Ancient Petitions', p.35.
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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 2111
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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.247 (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.35 (brief calendar of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149692/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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