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Arnold de Brocas de Brocas Arnold King and council Brocas states that he has been...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/36/1779

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Reference
SC 8/36/1779
Date
[? 1300-? 1325]
Description
Petitioners
Arnold de Brocas
Name(s)
de Brocas, Arnold
Addressees
King and council
Nature of request
Brocas states that he has been many times to the count of Flanders with the king's letters of request that the count make satisfaction to Brocas of the debt which is due to John de [Balx] for whom Brocas is attorney. He requests that justice be done according to the processes that he has pursued in Flanders . . . in Chancery.
Nature of endorsement
He should sue in Chancery.
Places mentioned
Flanders, [Belgium]
Bayonne, [Gascony, France]
People mentioned
Count of Flanders
John de [Balx], Burgess of Bayonne
Note
CCR 1307-13 p.330 is dated 7 August 1310, and gives a rough context for this petition.
Related material

For another petition by the same petitioner on another matter see SC 8/36/1787

For another petition from the same petitioner see SC 8/162/8055

For a duplicate of SC 8/36/1787, differently endorsed, see SC 8/290/14457

For another petition by the same petitioner acting for different merchants see SC 8/262/13055

For a related petition see SC 8/258/12858

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 438
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. I, 1307-1313, (Public Record Office, 1892), p.330 (letter to the Count of Flanders asking him to satisfy John de Balay (Balx) for the loss of his ship)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061979/

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