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Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Not specified. King and Council. The king is asked, for the good of the land of Ireland,...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/118/5886
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This record is about the Not specified. King and Council. The king is asked, for the good of the land of Ireland,... dating from [1323] 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 8/118/5886
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1323]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Not specified.
- Addressees
- King and Council.
- Nature of request
- The king is asked, for the good of the land of Ireland, to replace Richard de Exeter as Chief Justice of the Bench of Dublin. The unnamed petitioners state that Exeter has associated himself with various enemies of the king, particularly Walter de Lascy, whose daughter he has married.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Ireland
- Dublin, [Ireland].
- People mentioned
- Richard Descestre (de Exeter), Chief Justice of the Dublin Bench
- Walter de Lascy (Lacy).
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated by Connolly, 'Irish Ancient Petitions' and Sayles, Affairs, to 1323, when Exeter was replaced by Richard de Willoughby.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For transcript, see no.45 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 4515
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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.110-111 (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.41 (brief calendar of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9150566/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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