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

Catalogue reference: SC 8/30/1479

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Reference
SC 8/30/1479
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 chastelain of Le Conquet, and he and his mariners imprisoned for ten days, when it was found by inquest that they were not guilty of anything. He has had letters from the king, under his great seal, to the Duke of Brittany, to release his ship and goods, and pay his damages, but the Duke has refused to do anything. He requests letters to the Seneschal of Gascony, to seize ships the king's aid in the recovery of his goods.
Nature of endorsement
He is to sue in Chancery and he will have a remedy.
Places mentioned
Winchelsea, [Sussex]
Brittany, [France]
Brest, [Brittany, France]
Conket (Le Conquet), [Brittany, France]
People mentioned
Guyon de Trissilly (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.35).
Related material

For a related petition from the same petitioner, making a more specific request, is SC 8/30/1478

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

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

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 97
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.35 (Latin summary of petition on parliament roll)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061672/

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