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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
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Thomas ? Fitz John, Earl of Kildare. Fitz John, Earl of Kildare Thomas King. Ireland....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/156/7752
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This record is about the Thomas ? Fitz John, Earl of Kildare. Fitz John, Earl of Kildare Thomas King. Ireland.... dating from [? 1320] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/156/7752
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? 1320]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Thomas ? Fitz John, Earl of Kildare.
- Name(s)
- Fitz John, Earl of Kildare, Thomas
- Addressees
- King.
- Places mentioned
- Ireland.
- Nature of request
- [The sense of the petition is difficult to recover as so little survives of the petition but it seems to concern debts owed by the ancestors of the earl (if Connolly's identification is correct)].
- Nature of endorsement
- Coram rege. 2) In as much as the king is much charged with debts, and the land destroyed by which . . . [remainder missing].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition has been speculatively dated to? 1320 on the basis of the guard note which is presumably made on the basis of other petitions in this file. The petition is endorsed in French which was more common after 1322.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For transcript, see p.177 of PRO 31/7/156
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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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.51 (brief calendar of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9209944/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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