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? No Petitioner named Return to a writ of certiorari reporting that the cocket at...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/174/8673

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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Return to a writ of certiorari reporting that the cocket at... dating from [1320] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/174/8673
Date
[1320]
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Return to a writ of certiorari reporting that the cocket at Drogheda on both sides of the river was in the custody of the king but had been in the hands of the mayor and burgesses, and the steward and burgesses respectively, though the farm for these was in arrears. [The value of the cocket for 9, 10 and 11 Edw. II is given].
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Drogheda, [Ireland].
People mentioned
Mayor and burgesses of Drogheda
Steward and burgesses of Drogheda.
Note
The return dates to 1320 with the petition to which it was formerly attached (SC 8/174/8674).
Related material

For the copy of the writ, see SC 8/174/8672

For the petition to which this return was formerly appended, see SC 8/174/8674

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
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.57 (brief calendar of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294539/

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SC 8

Special Collections: Ancient Petitions

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