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King's liegemen of the suburbs of the city of Dublin. King and council. The petitioners...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/106/5264

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Reference
SC 8/106/5264
Date
[c. 1317]
Description
Petitioners
King's liegemen of the suburbs of the city of Dublin.
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
The petitioners request remission to them and their heirs of half their rents, since the suburbs of Dublin were burned and demolished as a defence measure against the Scots at the command of the king and his council in those parts.
Nature of endorsement
The rents have been in the hands of the ancestors of the king, which he does not wish at all to release.Coram rege.
Places mentioned
Dublin, [Ireland].
Note
Assumed by Sayles, Affairs, pp. 87-8, and Connolly, 'Irish Ancient Petitions', to date shortly after the reduction of the fee farm of Dublin in 1316 (CPR 1313-17, p. 471); the destruction to which the petition refers took place in 1317.
Related material

For a petition by the mayor and commonalty of Dublin for a reduction of their farm for the same reason see SC 8/156/7783

For transcript, see no.38 of PRO 31/7/103

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 2699
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. II, 1313-1317, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.471 (reduction of the farm of Dublin on account of damages of war)
  • Documents on the Affairs of Ireland before the King's Council , G.O. Sayles, (Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1979), pp.87-88 (no.114) (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.37 (brief calendar of petition)
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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149834/

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