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Person Lombard. Lombard Person King and council. The petitioner asks for £100...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/58/2898

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This record is about the Person Lombard. Lombard Person King and council. The petitioner asks for £100... dating from [1318] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/58/2898
Date
[1318]
Description
Petitioners
Person Lombard.
Name(s)
Lombard, Person
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
The petitioner asks for £100 and fifty marks to buy horses for the king and baronage of the realm in order to assuage the shortage, which is such that a large part of the gentlemen of the realm do not have the means to have men-at-arms. The markets in Lombardy are unavailable because of the danger on the sea during time of war.
Nature of endorsement
He is to show in writing or verbally and in the presence of the council the reason and method, and by what advantage the contents of the petition can increase the realm.
Places mentioned
Lombardy, [Italy].
Note
Datable by reference to Docs. Illus. English History, p. 37.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 4762
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Documents Illustrative of English History in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, selected from the Records of the Department of the Queen's Remembrancer of the Exchequer, Ed. H. Cole, (Record Commission, 1844), p.37 (edition of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9063118/

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