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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Farman Albert, Robert de Seynt Botouf (Boston), and John Child, merchants of Great...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/30/1485
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/30/1485
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1307-c. 1310]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Farman Albert, Robert de Seynt Botouf (Boston), and John Child, merchants of Great Yarmouth
- Name(s)
- Albert; de Seynt Botouf (Boston); Child, Farman; Robert; John
- Addressees
- King and council
- Occupation
- merchants of Great Yarmouth
- Nature of request
- Farman Albert, Robert de Seynt Botouf (Boston), and John Child state that in the time of the late King Edward they sued three letters from him to the Count of Hainault, asking him to do justice on his subjects for various trespasses and robberies committed against them; he has now sent three replies, which are still in Chancery, and from which it appears that he has failed to do justice for them. They request a suitable remedy.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Grant Jernemue (Great Yarmouth), [Norfolk]
- Henaud (Hainault), [Belgium]
- People mentioned
- Edward [I], King of England
- [William], Count of Hainault
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- CCR 1307-13 p.6 is dated at Berkhamsted, 3 November 1307; CCR 1307-13 pp.54-55 is dated at Westminster, 14 March 1308; CCR 1307-13 p.335 is dated at Biggar, 6 October 1310; CPR 1307-13 p.52 is dated at Westminster, 14 March 1308. These references, and the mention of replies to letters written by the king's father, would suggest a date early in the reign of Edward II for this petition.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Parliamentary Petition 87
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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 II, vol. I, 1307-1313, (Public Record Office, 1892), p.6 (letter to the bailiffs of Yarmouth that those with complaints against the Count of Hainault's men should present them before the king on the Sunday before Lent) & pp.54-55 (letter to the Count of Hainault setting terms for a meeting to discuss concord between them, and amends for attacks on their men) & p.335 (request to the Count of Hainault to do justice on the matter of robberies at sea committed by his men)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. I, 1307-1313, (Public Record Office, 1894), p.52 (safe-conduct to envoys of William Count of Hainault, coming to England to treat of mercantile matters)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061678/
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