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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Thomas de Bureleye, Prior of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem in Ireland (Knights...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/258/12900
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/258/12900
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1360
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Thomas de Bureleye, Prior of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem in Ireland (Knights Hospitallers), Chancellor of Ireland, Richard Elerker, Geoffrey Fitz Eustace, John Lumbard, messengers of the council of Ireland.
- Name(s)
- de Bureleye; Elerker; Fitz Eustace; Lumbard, Thomas; Richard; Geoffrey; John
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Occupation
- Prior of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem in Ireland (Knights Hospitallers), Chancellor of Ireland; messengers of the council of Ireland
- Nature of request
- The petitioners state that they have been chosen to inform the King of the perilous state of Ireland and ask him to give credence to their petition, and not to listen to information to the contrary. They make seven specific complaints of factors leading to this state, arising from a general council held at Kilkenny, and ask that a good and sufficient captain, and a good store of men and money, might be sent from England in haste, to combat these ills.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Kilkenny, [County Kilkenny], Ireland.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated at Kilkenny on the Monday after the feast of St Margaret, 34 Edward III (27 July 1360).
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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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- 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.82 (brief calendar of petition)
- Parliaments and Councils of Medieval Ireland, vol. I, ed. H.G. Richardson and G.O. Sayles, (, 1947), pp.19-22 (full edition of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9440513/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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