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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Item
Not specified King, Council and Lords in Parliament. [This petition is badly damaged...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/118/5889
What’s it about?
This record is about the Not specified King, Council and Lords in Parliament. [This petition is badly damaged... dating from [1381-1382] 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 8/118/5889
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1381-1382]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Not specified
- Addressees
- King, Council and Lords in Parliament.
- Nature of request
- [This petition is badly damaged and much is missing or illegible]The petitioners request that the king appoint a wise lieutenant to come to Ireland with a military force and end the dispute between the followers of the Earl of Desmond and those of Philip Barry. The land of Munster has suffered from constant attacks from rebels and enemies of the king, and many of the king's subjects have fled to Bristol and Cornwall.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Ireland
- Munster, [Ireland]
- Bristol
- Cornwall.
- People mentioned
- [Maurice FitzThomas], Earl of [Desmond]
- Geraldines
- Philip Barry.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For transcript, see no.20 of PRO 31/7/108
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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 4519
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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), pp.41-2 (brief calendar of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9150570/
Series information
SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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