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Dean and Chapter of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. King The petitioners request...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/106/5266

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This record is about the Dean and Chapter of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. King The petitioners request... dating from [1313-1317] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/106/5266
Date
[1313-1317]
Description
Petitioners
Dean and Chapter of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.
Addressees
King
Nature of request
The petitioners request that they be granted the temporalities of the archbishopric of Dublin during vacancy according to the true value, having regard to the great damage that the church has suffered because of unsuitable keepers as in castle and manors which are burnt and ruined by the Irish enemy, and by default of good keeping by which the greater part of the lands are wasted by which the archbishops are not able to have any profit and they cannot take any tithes there which constitute the greater part of their sustenance.
Nature of endorsement
The chancellor and treasurer are to examine the matter and inform the king.Coram domino rege.
Places mentioned
Dublin, [Ireland].
Note
Dated by Sayles, Affairs, p. 88, to the interregnum between the death of John de Leche, archbishop of Dublin, in 1313 and the succession to the archbishopric of Alexander Bicknor in 1317.
Related material

For transcript, see no.95 of PRO 31/7/97

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 2701
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Documents on the Affairs of Ireland before the King's Council , G.O. Sayles, (Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1979), p.88 (no.115) (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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