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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Item
? No Petitioner named Letter to Edward I from the Mayor and community of Roscommon,...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/197/9839
What’s it about?
This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Letter to Edward I from the Mayor and community of Roscommon,... dating from [c. 1283] 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 8/197/9839
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1283]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- ? No Petitioner named
- Nature of request
- Letter to Edward I from the Mayor and community of Roscommon, requesting compensation for the complete destruction of their town by Cathal Oconchuur. They also state that they have had no news of their messenger, whom they dispatched to the King with three and a half marks, and ask that he might be distrained for the money if he can be found.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Roscommon, [County Roscommon], Ireland.
- People mentioned
- Edward [I], King of England
- Mayor and community of Roscommon
- Cathal Oconchuur (O Connor)
- John Passavand, messenger of the Mayor and community of Roscommon.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated to c. 1283 by 'Irish Ancient Petitions' p.63 and Sayles, Affairs, p.31.
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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)
- Latin
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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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- Documents on the Affairs of Ireland before the King's Council , G.O. Sayles, (Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1979), p.31 (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.63 (brief calendar of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9295728/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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