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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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People of the city of Cork. King. [Petition in 4 parts].1) The people request confirmation...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/174/8668
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This record is about the People of the city of Cork. King. [Petition in 4 parts].1) The people request confirmation... dating from [1323] 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 8/174/8668
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1323]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- People of the city of Cork.
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- [Petition in 4 parts].1) The people request confirmation for a reasonable fine of the liberty that no citizen of Cork should plead or be impleaded except before the mayor and the bailiffs of the city.2) The people request that they be able to arrest any of their goods and chattels taken by the justice or other ministers, and to be able to do this without impeachment of the ministers, as the ministers have been taking them although this is against their liberties.3) The people request that they not be elected as ministers in other counties of which they have no knowledge if other suitable and more knowledgeable people who can attend to the office are available.4) The people request that they are able by their letters to make attorneys to make their proffer in the Exchequer of Dublin so that the mayor and bailiffs can avoid the perils that can often befall them by robbers and malefactors. They request this for a reasonable fine.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let it be done for a fine of £100.
- Places mentioned
- Cork, [County Cork, Ireland]
- Dublin, [Ireland].
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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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- Calendar of Charter Rolls, vol. III, Edw I and Edw II, 1300-1326, (Public Record Office, 1908), p.460 (grant of the additional liberties for a fine)
- Documents on the Affairs of Ireland before the King's Council , G.O. Sayles, (Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1979), pp.109-10 (no.149) (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.57 (brief calendar of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294534/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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