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Benedict Alard of Winchelsea Alard Benedict King Benedict Alard of Winchelsea complains...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/30/1478

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Reference
SC 8/30/1478
Date
[1318]
Description
Petitioners
Benedict Alard of Winchelsea
Name(s)
Alard, Benedict
Addressees
King
Nature of request
Benedict Alard of Winchelsea complains that his ship and the goods in it were seized at Brest by Guyon de Tressilly and other people of the Duke of Brittany, and he and his mariners imprisoned for ten days, although they were not guilty of anything, as the chastelain and Duke have acknowledged. He has had letters from the king, under his great seal, to the Duke of Brittany, to release his goods, but the Duke has refused to do anything. He requests letters to the Seneschal of Gascony, to seize ships and goods belonging to the Duchy of Brittany, until his losses and damages are made good.
Nature of endorsement
He is to go to Chancery and a remedy is to be given him as has been done in similar cases.
Places mentioned
Winchelsea, [Sussex]
Brest, [Brittany, France]
Conket (Le Conquet), [Brittany, France]
Duchy of Brittany, [France]
Gascony, [France]
People mentioned
[John de Bretagne] Duke of Brittany
Guyon de Tressilly, chastelain of Le Conquet
Note
The Latin summary of this petition is enrolled on the roll of the parliament of October 12 Edward II (1318) (Docs. Illus. English History p.34).
Related material

For a related letter, see SC 8/233/11626

For a related petition, see SC 8/178/8862

For a related petition from the same petitioner, making a less specific request, is SC 8/30/1479

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 51
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Documents Illustrative of English History in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, selected from the Records of the Department of the Queen's Remembrancer of the Exchequer, Ed. H. Cole, (Record Commission, 1844), p.34 (Latin summary of petition on parliament roll)
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