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Lost. [Lost]. [The petition is badly damaged and is missing portions from all of...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/343/16188

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This record is about the Lost. [Lost]. [The petition is badly damaged and is missing portions from all of... dating from [c. 1315-c. 1320] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/343/16188
Date
[c. 1315-c. 1320]
Description
Petitioners
Lost.
Addressees
[Lost].
Nature of request
[The petition is badly damaged and is missing portions from all of its sides so that the full sense is not recoverable].The petitioners request remedy concerning the devastation cause by the war between Richard de Clare and his allies on the one part and [...] on the other.[The other requests are too fragmentary to recover their sense].1)
Nature of endorsement
[Not enough remains of this response to make sense of it].2) [...] the king wishes that a writ be sent to the justice and treasurer of Ireland that they make speedy [...] all the debts that people owe him in Ireland whether they be ministers or others.3) He pleads.
Places mentioned
Leinster, [Ireland]
Offaly, [Ireland]
Munster, [Ireland].
People mentioned
Richard de Clare.
Note
The petition is dated to c. 1315-c. 1320 because the petition refers to Richard de Clare in Ireland, and he was there fighting the invading Scots at around this time (CPR 1313-17, pp. 221, 459, 642).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Chancery Unsorted Miscellanea (transferred 30 Oct. 1924).
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9736669/

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