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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Liege commons of Ireland. King and council. The commons request that the council...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/171/8545
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This record is about the Liege commons of Ireland. King and council. The commons request that the council... dating from [1361] 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 8/171/8545
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1361]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Liege commons of Ireland.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The commons request that the council and the lords assigned for Irish business provide a hasty and suitable remedy, and that the messengers and other ministers be allowed to return home as the land is greatly imperilled by the enemy.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Ireland.
- People mentioned
- [James Butler], earl of Ormond, justice of Ireland
- Geoffrey Fitz Eustace, messenger of the Irish commons
- John Lumbard (Lombard), messenger of the Irish commons
- Thomas Mynot, baron of the Irish Exchequer.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1361 in accordance with the dating of the petition given by Sayles who places it in the January parliament held at Westminster in 1361 (Sayles, Affairs, p.214).
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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)
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- Documents on the Affairs of Ireland before the King's Council , G.O. Sayles, (Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1979), p.214 (no.229) (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.55 (brief calendar of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294410/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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