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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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Mariners of boats arrested by order of the king for the earl of Cornwall's passage...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/64/3166
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This record is about the Mariners of boats arrested by order of the king for the earl of Cornwall's passage... dating from [c. 1331] 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 8/64/3166
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1331]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Mariners of boats arrested by order of the king for the earl of Cornwall's passage to Gascony.
- Addressees
- King and council
- Nature of request
- The mariners request that they be paid as they were arrested for the earl of Cornwall's passage to Gascony and remained arrested with their full crews for a long time, and were unable to make a profit. They sued to parliament and the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer by writ and still have not been paid.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let it be ordered by writ of Chancery to the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer that when they have viewed the first writ that came to them, that they make execution according to the tenor of the writ.
- Places mentioned
- Gascony, [France]
- Westminster.
- People mentioned
- [John of Eltham], Earl of Cornwall
- John de Smale, king's clerk.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition can be dated to c. 1331 as the petition makes reference to the last parliament held at Westminster which places this in the parliament held there in November/December 1330, and because of the numerous references to Smale and the preparations for the voyage to Gascony in the patent rolls for 1330-1 (CPR 1327-30, pp. 502, 512, and 529).
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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 5563
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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/C9106929/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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