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William Servat, merchant. Servat William King and council. merchant Servat requests...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/74/3670

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Reference
SC 8/74/3670
Date
[c. 1314]
Description
Petitioners
William Servat, merchant.
Name(s)
Servat, William
Addressees
King and council.
Occupation
merchant
Nature of request
Servat requests that he be paid the arrears of the sums that the king and the king's father owe to him from the issues of the customs of wool issuing from Southampton, Ipswich and Chichester.1)
Nature of endorsement
Let it be ordered by a writ of Chancery to the treasurer and chamberlain of the Exchequer that they deliver all the money that the king owes to Servat from all of the issues of the customs of Southampton, Chichester and Ipswich as is contained in the petition.2) Memorandum that nothing could be got from the customs of Marmande because others had writs upon this to the steward of Gascony, and of other moneys he had a writ to the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer according to the form of the writ.
Places mentioned
Ipswich, [Suffolk]
Great Yarmouth, [Norfolk]
Southampton, [Hampshire]
Chichester, [Sussex]
Marmande, [Guyenne, France]
Gascony, [France].
People mentioned
Richard de Haverigg, Constable of Bordeaux
Ralph de . . .
Note
The petition probably dates to c. 1314 as Servat was assigned several sums from several ports in both 1314 and 1315, though none of these assignments seems to match the contents of the petition exactly (CPR 1313-17, pp.101, 305-6).
Related material

For another petition on the same matter by the same petitioner, see SC 8/205/10231

For another petition by Servat, see SC 8/279/13919

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 7196
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. II, 1313-1317, (Public Record Office, 1898), pp.101, 305-6 (assignment of sums from the customs of various ports)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9107444/

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