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Richard de Clare, king's clerk. de Clare Richard King and Council. king's clerk The...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/104/5179
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/104/5179
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1322]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Richard de Clare, king's clerk.
- Name(s)
- de Clare, Richard
- Addressees
- King and Council.
- Occupation
- king's clerk
- Nature of request
- The petitioner asks to be restored to the living of Dungarvan Church, from which he was ousted when Roger Mortimer granted the church to the archbishop for the raising of a prison in Cashel. And then by the aid and procurement of Mortimer, [the archbishop] bought confirmation from the king of Mortimer's grant and by usurping possession procured the bishop of Lismore (his suffragan), to proceed against the petitioner and oust him from the church, and wrongly deliver the same to the bishop contrary to the king's estate and in disinheritance of the crown.
- Nature of endorsement
- The tenor of the confirmations are being inspected, and upon this the king will have consideration.
- Places mentioned
- Ireland
- Dungarvan, [County Waterford, Ireland]
- Cashel, [County Tipperary, Ireland].
- People mentioned
- [William Fitz John], Archbishop of Cashel
- Bishop of Lismore
- Roger Mortimer, lately Keeper of Ireland.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated by Connolly, 'Irish Ancient Petitions', p.35.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a related petition see SC 8/104/5178
For a related document see SC 8/104/5181
For a copy of related letters patent see SC 8/104/5180
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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 2352
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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.107-8 (no.147) (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 wirth references)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149749/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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