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? No Petitioner named Letters from Edward I to Gerard de Voorne, Castellan of Zealand...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/45/2224
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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Letters from Edward I to Gerard de Voorne, Castellan of Zealand... dating from 1301 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 8/45/2224
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1301
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- ? No Petitioner named
- Nature of request
- Letters from Edward I to Gerard de Voorne, Castellan of Zealand and Lord of Maarland, complaining that Doedjin Baencart, merchant of Maerlant, bought four lasts of herring from Robert Elys, of Great Yarmouth, through Jacques Baencart of Reimerswaal, but he has delayed paying him for them, and requesting that satisfaction be made to Elys. Included is a copy of a bond made by Jacques Baencart of Reimerswaal, merchant and attorney of Doedijn Baencart, acknowledging that he owes Robert Elys of Great Yarmouth £20 for four lasts of herring bought from him, and promising to pay this in Maarland at the following Christmas.
- Nature of endorsement
- [On face] This deed was acknowledged in the court of Yarmouth before Henry Rose and his colleagues, Bailiffs of Yarmouth in the twenty-eighth year of King Edward.[On dorse] The community of the town of Yarmouth is to inform the Chancellor by its letters patent, sealed with the common seal of the aforesaid community, that lord Robert de Voorne, Chastelain of Zealand, failed in doing justice to Robert Elis, mentioned in the petition, and the same Chancellor will provide the aforesaid Robert with an appropriate remedy.
- Places mentioned
- Remeswale (Reimerswaal), [Zealand, Netherlands]
- Merland (Maarland), [Zealand, Netherlands]
- Magna Jernemutha (Great Yarmouth), [Norfolk]
- Siriksee (Zieriksee), [Zealand, Netherlands]
- Lincoln, [Lincolnshire].
- People mentioned
- Jacques Bankard (Baencart) of Reimerswaal, merchant and attorney of Doedijn Baencart
- Dodin (Doedijn) Bankard (Baencart), merchant of Maarland
- Robert Elys (Ellis), merchant of Great Yarmouth
- Henry de Somerleton
- Nicholas Aysseman
- Thomas Fastolf
- Geoffrey de Fordelee
- Henry de Latirsete of Yarmouth
- Peter Ossessone
- William Bondynessone of Reimerswaal
- Giles Boneface of Zierikzee
- [Edward I], King of England
- Gerardus de Forn' (Voorne), castellan of Zealand and Lord of Maerlant
- Henry Rose, bailiff of Great Yarmouth
- Robert de Furn' (Voorne), Chastelain of Zealand
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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
The petition in support of which these letters are quoted is SC 8/45/2222
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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 2966
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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)
- Latin
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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)
- Bronnen Tot de Geschiedenis van den Handel met Engelond, Schotland en Ierland, vol. I, ed. H.J. Smit, (Chetham Society, Vol. X, 1928), pp.81-2 (edition of document)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062434/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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