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Middling people of Ireland. King. [Lengthy petition in 3 parts].1) It is requested...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/177/8820

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This record is about the Middling people of Ireland. King. [Lengthy petition in 3 parts].1) It is requested... dating from [1317-1319] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/177/8820
Date
[1317-1319]
Description
Petitioners
Middling people of Ireland.
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
[Lengthy petition in 3 parts].1) It is requested that only the king give pardons and that the justices do their job properly. It is also requested that 2 or 3 righteous men be assigned for this business who have nothing to lose in the land.2) It is requested that the bishops be ordered by writs that sentence given without the king's assent be repealed, and the ordinances of Kilkenny undone as common law is sufficient for the offences of trespass etc.3) It is requested that the chief justices, by the assent of parliament, might have the power to grant English law to Irish who want it.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Ireland
Kilkenny, [County Kilkenny, Ireland].
People mentioned
St Patrick
[Diarmid] Mcmerwoth (MacMurrough, Mac Murchadha), king of Leinster
Henry II, King of England
Thomas [Becket, archbishop of Canterbury]
Pope Adrian IV
[Richard de Burgh], earl of Ulster.
Note
The petition is dated to 1317-1319 in accordance with the dating given by Sayles (Affairs, pp.99-101). This dating is based on SC 8/177/8817 and SC 8/218/10873.
Related material

For the copy of the bull Laudabiliter that was probably formerly attached to this petition, see SC 8/177/8818

For a related petition, see SC 8/177/8817

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Documents on the Affairs of Ireland before the King's Council , G.O. Sayles, (Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1979), pp.99-101 (no. 136) (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), pp.57-8 (brief calendar of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294688/

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