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Religious of Ireland. King and council. The religious of Ireland state that an ordinance...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/261/13006

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Reference
SC 8/261/13006
Date
[1337]
Description
Petitioners
Religious of Ireland.
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
The religious of Ireland state that an ordinance made at Kilkenny in the second year of the King's father, that no Irishman should be received into any religious house in land of peace, which led to great dissension between England and Irish until it was repealed in the third year, has recently been revived by John de Allerker, Treasurer of Ireland, and is again likely to cause great dissension. They ask that Irishmen born in land of peace who are in the King's fealty might be received into religious houses on the same basis as Englishmen, but that Irishmen born in land of war or enemies to the King might not be.
Nature of endorsement
The Justiciar of Ireland is to be ordered to have it published in the places where he thinks it should be published . . . or to give permission . . . to the Irish who are in the King's peace, brought up among the English . . . to the King's said faith that they are to be received [into any order of] religion, as the said petition wishes, provided always that the Irish who are against the King's faith are not to be received into any order of religion in the said land of Ireland by colour of the same proclamation and permission, notwithstanding any ordinance or prohibition made on this.
Places mentioned
Ireland
Kilkenny, [County Kilkenny, Ireland]
Dublin, [Ireland].
People mentioned
Edward [II], King of England
John Wogan, Justice of Ireland
John de Allerker (Ellerker), Treasurer of Ireland.
Note
CPR 1334-8 p.405 is dated 24 March 1337, and is clearly in response to this petition.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. III, 1334-1338, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.405 (grant that Irishmen in the King's fealty may be admitted among the English religious in that land)
  • 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.83 (brief calendar of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9516950/

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