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Mayor and commonalty of the city of . . . King. [The petition is badly damaged, and...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/154/7690

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Reference
SC 8/154/7690
Date
[? 1320-? 1330]
Description
Petitioners
Mayor and commonalty of the city of . . .
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
[The petition is badly damaged, and the full sense of the petition is difficult to recover].The mayor and commonalty request that they be discharged from the arrears from their farm and can have remedy . . . as the lands around the city are utterly destroyed and they cannot pay their farm.
Nature of endorsement
They should have respite of the sum until Michaelmas next, and let it be ordered by writ of the great seal to the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer of Dublin that they search the rolls and remembrances and . . .
Places mentioned
[Dublin, [Ireland]].
Note
The petition is speculatively dated to? 1320-? 1330 on the basis of the hand. The response to the petition is in French which usually indicates a petition after 1322, and the petition may relate to the burning of the suburbs of Dublin on the approach of the Scots and Irish in 1317, though the petition does not necessarily need to date to as early as this.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
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.51 (brief calendar of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9209879/

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