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Menant de Mountocut (Montecute). de Mountocut (Montecute) Menant King and council....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/62/3062
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This record is about the Menant de Mountocut (Montecute). de Mountocut (Montecute) Menant King and council.... dating from [1316-1325] 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 8/62/3062
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1316-1325]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Menant de Mountocut (Montecute).
- Name(s)
- de Mountocut (Montecute), Menant
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Mountocut on behalf of Lescluser requests that amends will be made to them concerning Abingdon for the great damage that he has done to Lescluser and that it will be guaranteed by letters of Abingdon that they will be able to leave and return into England and bring wine otherwise he and his companions will not come and bring their goods. Lescluser agreed with Abingdon to bring 200 tuns of wine into England but when the wine was brought he seized it, selling part of it and the rest was held so long that it deteriorated, and he menaced them in other ways.
- Nature of endorsement
- The petition is sent to the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer, and they are ordered to make full and swift justice to the merchant on the contents of the petition, and Abingdon is to be ordered on the part of the king not to cause hindrance to the merchant on pain of severe forfeiture to the king.
- Places mentioned
- Gascony, [France]
- London
- Kingston upon Hull, [East Riding of Yorkshire]
- Flanders.
- People mentioned
- Arnold de Lescluser, Merchant of Gascony
- Steven de Abyngdon (Abingdon), Butler of the King.
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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 5884
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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/C9106825/
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Series information
SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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Menant de Mountocut (Montecute). de Mountocut (Montecute) Menant King and council....