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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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John Fitz Thomas. Fitz Thomas John King. Fitz Thomas requests that the justices of...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/176/8763
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/176/8763
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1302]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John Fitz Thomas.
- Name(s)
- Fitz Thomas, John
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- Fitz Thomas requests that the justices of Ireland be commanded to maintain his rights as the Irish of the earl of Ulster came to his town of Rathangan and burnt it and the land around, and he requests that he be granted a service to strengthen a fortress for the profit of Ireland. He further requests that he be granted a charter of pardon for all manner of homicides, felonies, robberies, arsons and other trespasses in Ireland for his service in Wales at Caernarfon on 7 May.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Rothymegane (Rathangan), [County Kildare, Ireland]
- Wales
- Caernarfon, [Caernarfonshire, Wales].
- People mentioned
- [Richard de Burgh], Earl of Ulster.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1302 as a slightly later stage in the process can be found in an order to the justice dated to 23 February 1302 (CCR 1296-1302, p.519).
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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 Close Rolls, Edw I, vol. IV, 1296-1302, (Public Record Office, 1906), p.519 (order to the justice to give the petitioner full service in this matter)
- 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.58 (brief calendar of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294631/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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