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Not specified King. The unspecified petitioner complains that Bicknor, with the assistance...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/181/9019
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This record is about the Not specified King. The unspecified petitioner complains that Bicknor, with the assistance... dating from [1328] 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 8/181/9019
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1328]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Not specified
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- The unspecified petitioner complains that Bicknor, with the assistance of the Earl of March and without the knowledge or consent of the king, has procured a warrant for a pardon for various offences relating to his account while Treasurer of Ireland, including the forging of false acquittances and writs of liberate, and other fraudulent concealments. He asks that the king prevent this.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Dublin, [Ireland]
- Ireland.
- People mentioned
- Alexander de Bicknor, Archbishop of Dublin
- [Roger Mortimer, [Earl of March].
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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 III, vol. I, 1327-1330, (Public Record Office, 1896), p.144 (order to enquire into this matter) & p.266 (related order concerning action against Walter de Islep)
- Documents on the Affairs of Ireland before the King's Council , G.O. Sayles, (Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1979), pp.131-2 (no.161) (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.60 (brief calendar of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294896/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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Not specified King. The unspecified petitioner complains that Bicknor, with the assistance...