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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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John Kirkby, bishop of Carlisle. Kirkby John King and council. bishop of Carlisle...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/169/8409
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This record is about the John Kirkby, bishop of Carlisle. Kirkby John King and council. bishop of Carlisle... dating from [c. 1332-c. 1342] 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 8/169/8409
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1332-c. 1342]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John Kirkby, bishop of Carlisle.
- Name(s)
- Kirkby, John
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Occupation
- bishop of Carlisle
- Nature of request
- [The petition is missing a portion from the right-hand half which makes it difficult to recover the sense of the petition.]Kirkby requests remedy as he has been taken and put to ransom for 850 marks against his protection, and the knights have paid part of the ransom, but because the lands of . . . he does not have anything to pay the ransom. [Mention is made of a matter agreed in full council held at York in the previous Christmas by the earl of Warenne.]
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- York.
- People mentioned
- Humphrey, son of . . .
- [John de Warenne], earl of Warenne
- . . . Basset
- . . . de Dacre.
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294256/
Series information
SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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