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Arnold Brocas Brocas Arnold King and council Brocas as attorney to the relatives...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/36/1787

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SC 8/36/1787
Date
[1310-1327]
Description
Petitioners
Arnold Brocas
Name(s)
Brocas, Arnold
Addressees
King and council
Nature of request
Brocas as attorney to the relatives of Verger and the relatives of his companions states that Verger and his companions were killed in their boat whilst they were going from Flanders to Bayonne by malefactors from the city of Genoa who boarded the boat by force and stole the goods. Edward I heard the complaint of the robbery to the authorities of Genoa that they make amends for this. Because they did nothing Edward II sent further letters to them, and they answered that they would send ambassadors concerning this business to the king, but Brocas still has nothing. He requests that the king ordain such a remedy that the relatives of Verger and his companions are able to have restoration of their goods, damages and expenses.
Nature of endorsement
The process should be viewed in Chancery, and let justice be done there.
Places mentioned
Genoa, [Italy]
Flanders, [Belgium]
Bayonne, [Gascony, France]
People mentioned
Renaud de Verger, late master of the boat called la cogge Seinte Marie of Bayone
Note
Dated on internal evidence to the reign of Edward II (1307-1327). CCR 1307-13 p.328 is dated 10 August 1310, and, as it does not mention the sending of ambassadors, would seem to predate this petition. It may have been in response to SC 8/269/13447, which is dated March 1310. The guard comments place this petition at c. 1320, but there is no explanation for this - although this might be a likely latest date, as endorsements in the 1320s are increasingly in French.
Related material

For another petition by the same petitioner on another matter see SC 8/36/1779

For another petition about this matter, see SC 8/269/13447

For another petition by the same petitioner acting for different merchants see SC 8/258/12858

For a related petition see SC 8/262/13055

For a duplicate of this petition, differently endorsed see SC 8/290/14457

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 916
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.328 (request to the Podesta and consuls of Genoa to do justice)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061988/

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