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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Maurice Fitz Thomas Fitz Gerald, Earl of Kildare. Fitz Thomas Fitz Gerald, Earl of...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/262/13052
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This record is about the Maurice Fitz Thomas Fitz Gerald, Earl of Kildare. Fitz Thomas Fitz Gerald, Earl of... dating from [c. 1346-1348] 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 8/262/13052
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1346-1348]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Maurice Fitz Thomas Fitz Gerald, Earl of Kildare.
- Name(s)
- Fitz Thomas Fitz Gerald, Earl of Kildare, Maurice
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Maurice Fitz Thomas, Earl of Kildare states that the liberty of Kildare was wrongly taken into the King's hand by Ralph Dufford, formerly Justice of Ireland, as can be seen from the case returned in Chancery in England. He asks that the case may be examined, and, if the Justice's reasons are not found to be sufficient, that the liberty might be returned to him.
- Nature of endorsement
- Coram rege.
- Places mentioned
- County Kildare, [Ireland].
- People mentioned
- Thomas Fitz John [Fitz Gerald], Earl of Kildare
- Ralph Dufford (Ufford), Justice of Ireland.
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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. VIII, 1346-1349, (Public Record Office, 1905), pp.512-513 (order to supersede a demand for money unduly made on the petitioner from this county)
- Documents on the Affairs of Ireland before the King's Council , G.O. Sayles, (Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1979), pp.189-190 (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.83 (brief calendar of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9516996/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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