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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Liege burgesses of Drogheda. King. The petitioners ask to be exempt from their fee...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/106/5277
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This record is about the Liege burgesses of Drogheda. King. The petitioners ask to be exempt from their fee... dating from [c. 1319] 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 8/106/5277
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1319]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Liege burgesses of Drogheda.
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- The petitioners ask to be exempt from their fee farm for a number of years for their service at the battle of Dundalk, and because of their great expenses in enclosing and defending the town and because many burgesses and people of the town were killed at Dundalk.
- Nature of endorsement
- The king grants this in part subvention of the debt of 300 marks.
- Places mentioned
- Drogheda, [Ireland]
- Dundalk, [Co. Louth, Ireland].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Connolly, 'Irish Ancient Petitions', p. 37, dates this to c. 1319 on the basis of CPR 1317-21, p.346; the latter does not grant a remission of the fee farm itself, but rather a release from levies made by the king's ministers on goods in the town.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For transcript, see no.31 of PRO 31/7/95
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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 2715
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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)
- 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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149847/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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