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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Piers Guerner, Merchant of Florence; Philip de Nigre, Merchant of Florence; Matthew...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/49/2411
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This record is about the Piers Guerner, Merchant of Florence; Philip de Nigre, Merchant of Florence; Matthew... dating from [1348] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/49/2411
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1348]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Piers Guerner, Merchant of Florence; Philip de Nigre, Merchant of Florence; Matthew de Nigre, Merchant of Florence
- Name(s)
- Guerner; de Nigre; de Nigre, Piers; Philip; Matthew
- Addressees
- King and council
- Occupation
- Merchant of Florence
- Nature of request
- The petitioners request that they be able to have a speedy remedy and that they are able to have restitution of their money. They had taken quantities of silver plate to Clerk and Nicoli to be made into coin. This should have been made within eight days, but when they returned Clerk had left the country and assigned his right in his office to Nicoli, to the fraud and damage of them, and Nicoli did not wish to make restitution to them. The matters were found thus by a jury.
- Nature of endorsement
- Thomas de Brayton should come to inform the council of his action.
- Places mentioned
- Florence, [Italy]
- Loundres (London)
- People mentioned
- George Clerk, Master of the Mint in the Tower of London
- Lotte Nicoli, Master of the Mint in the Tower of London
- Thomas de Brayton
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition can be dated to 1348 by the title details in Rot. Parl. Vol. II, p.175 where it is shown that this was a copy by Hale from 21 Edward III.
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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 3661
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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)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.185a (no.43)(full edition of a later copy of original petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062624/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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