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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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John de Langford. de Langford John King and council. The petitioner seeks a remedy...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/56/2794
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This record is about the John de Langford. de Langford John King and council. The petitioner seeks a remedy... dating from [1322-1326] 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 8/56/2794
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1322-1326]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John de Langford.
- Name(s)
- de Langford, John
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The petitioner seeks a remedy from the king in that a consignment of his wool worth £250 bound for St Omer with Richard de Langford and other of his servants in a ship that was driven by a tempest of the sea into Flanders, was taken by Gerlof to the damage and loss of the petitioner, and the testimony for this is provided by letters from Gerlof and letters under the common seal of Southampton.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let him have a writ to the count of Flanders for two places, or to the county town of Sluis that they make justice thereon according to their custom.
- Places mentioned
- Flanders
- St Omer, [Artois, France]
- Escluse (Sluis), [Netherlands]
- Southampton, [Hampshire].
- People mentioned
- Richard de Langford
- John Gerlof, burgess of Sluys.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated tentatively by reference to SC 8/56/2793.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a related petition see SC 8/56/2793
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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 4932
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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/C9063012/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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