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Good people of Ireland. King. The people of Ireland ask that the Hospitallers, who...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/118/5852

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Reference
SC 8/118/5852
Date
[1328]
Description
Petitioners
Good people of Ireland.
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
The people of Ireland ask that the Hospitallers, who now hold the possessions in Ireland formerly of the Templars, be compelled to pay the debts, fees, pensions and other alms, which the Templars used to pay.
Nature of endorsement
Let a writ be sent to the Justices of Ireland, that they should do right according to the statute concerning the Hospitallers, made in the seventeenth year.
Places mentioned
Ireland.
People mentioned
[Edward II], King of England.
Note
Dated with reference to Rot. Parl., vol. II, p.25b (no.36).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 4436
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • 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.40 (brief calendar of petition)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.25b (no.36) (full edition of original petition)
  • The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rotuli Parliamentorum II, pp. 13-30, no. 36 (summary of references)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9150531/

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