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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Robert Elys (Ellis) of Great Yarmouth Elys (Ellis) Robert King and council Robert...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/45/2222
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This record is about the Robert Elys (Ellis) of Great Yarmouth Elys (Ellis) Robert King and council Robert... dating from [c. 1302] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/45/2222
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1302]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Robert Elys (Ellis) of Great Yarmouth
- Name(s)
- Elys (Ellis), Robert
- Addressees
- King and council
- Nature of request
- Robert Elys of Great Yarmouth states that Jacques Bancard, merchant and attorney of Dodin Bankard of Maerlant, bought four lasts of herring from him in Great Yarmouth for £20 and promised to pay him three years ago, and that despite letters from the king to Gerard de Voorne, Castellan of Zealand and Lord of Maerlant, nothing has been done about this, as the Bailiffs of Great Yarmouth have attested by their letters on this sent to the king. He asks the king to order recovery of his goods from merchants of Zealand in England.
- Nature of endorsement
- The letter of attestation is to be shown before the council.
- Places mentioned
- Great Yarmouth, [Norfolk]
- Remeswale (Reimerswaal), [Zealand, Netherlands]
- Zealand, [Netherlands]
- Merland (Maerlant), [Zealand, Netherlands]
- People mentioned
- Jacques Bancard of Reimerswaal, merchant and attorney of Dodin Bankard
- Dodin Bankard of Maerlant
- Gerard de Furn' (Voorne), Castellan of Zealand and Lord of Maerlant
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated on the guard to c. 1302 with reference to the following documents and the lapse of three years.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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A copy of letters of attestation from the Bailiffs of Great Yarmouth on this matter is SC 8/45/2223
A copy of the letters from the king to Gerard de Voorne, and of the bond made by Jacques Bancard for the herring, is SC 8/45/2224
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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 2964
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062432/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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