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John le Taverner, formerly Mayor of Bristol. Taverner John King and council. Mayor...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/76/3793
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This record is about the John le Taverner, formerly Mayor of Bristol. Taverner John King and council. Mayor... dating from [c. 1327] 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 8/76/3793
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1327]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John le Taverner, formerly Mayor of Bristol.
- Name(s)
- Taverner, John
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Occupation
- Mayor of Bristol
- Nature of request
- John le Taverner, formerly Mayor of Bristol, states that he had the rolls of the new statute of merchants in his keeping, as pertains to his office, and kept them in a coffer in the church of St Thomas the Martyr in Bristol, and passed them on to his successor: but that now, when he asks the current Mayor for certification from the rolls of a debt owed to him in the twenty-sixth year of the reign of the King's grandfather, the Mayor tells him that he has no such roll in his possession, and he is in danger of losing his debt. He requests a remedy.
- Nature of endorsement
- He is to have a writ in Chancery [a word or words missing under the binding] to make a certification according to the form of the statute, and a sicut alias, and in case he refuses to do it, he is to have a writ of attachment before the King, and a process is to take place for him there according to the law.
- Places mentioned
- Bristol, [Gloucestershire].
- People mentioned
- Simon de [Illegible], Mayor of Bristol
- William de Stantone, clerk of the statute
- Walter de [illegible]
- [Edward I], King of England.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated on the guard to '? c. 1327 seq.', with reference to the mention of the twenty-sixth year of the King's grandfather. Taverner was the mayor and leader of the Bristol rebels in the troubles of 1313-16, after which he was banished by Edward II. The petition, as with SC 8/18/872, appears to date from his return to the city.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For another petition from John le Taverner and Robert Martin see SC 8/18/872
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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 7994
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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/C9107567/
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