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Robert de Leicester, merchant. de Leicester Robert King and council. merchant The...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/58/2876

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Reference
SC 8/58/2876
Date
[c. 1277]
Description
Petitioners
Robert de Leicester, merchant.
Name(s)
de Leicester, Robert
Addressees
King and council.
Occupation
merchant
Nature of request
The petitioner seeks the king's aid in the recovery of his money and goods, or compensation for their loss by the prince of Wales according to the law of the land. He shows that he came from Ireland with his merchandise and landed at Holyhead in Wales. The people of the prince entered in the gate with force and took from the petitioner £30 in money and other goods worth thirteen marks. The king sent letters to the prince demanding that he deliver to the petitioner the money and goods etc., as by loyal inquest. The inquest was granted with the agreement of the prince and the petitioner in the presence of Gocelyn Badlesmere and Bartholomew de Sulee on Anglesey ... and hostages received from the prince. The king granted an order by his letters to the prince to make delivery of the same or make amends ... his deputy within three weeks from Michaelmas.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Ireland
Chastel Kelby (Caergybi, Holyhead), [Anglesey, Wales]
Anglesey, [Wales].
People mentioned
Edward I, King of England
[Llywelyn ap Gruffudd], Prince of Wales
Gocelyn (Guncelin) Badlesmere, Justice of Chester
Bartholomew de Sulee (Suleye).
Note
Notes on dorse, and internal evidence which seems to refer to certain events in North Wales (see Powicke, The Thirteenth Century, pp.412-13).
Related material

For a related petition see SC 8/259/12907

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 5366
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9063096/

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