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Good people of the realm, creditors of the Pulci company of Florence. King and council....

Catalogue reference: SC 8/79/3936

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Reference
SC 8/79/3936
Date
[1306]
Description
Petitioners
Good people of the realm, creditors of the Pulci company of Florence.
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
1) The people request that the merchants of the other companies of Florence be constrained to make satisfaction for the debts of the Pulci company as they refuse to come to England to make satisfaction despite letters of protection and conduct.2) They request remedy against the Ammanati company of Pistoia for their money, the merchants having withdrawn from the realm.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Florence, [Italy]
Pistoia, [Italy]
London.
People mentioned
Merchants of the Pulci company, Florence
Merchants of the Ammanati company of Pistoia
Gerard de Fresney.
Note
The petition seems to date to 1306 when entries in the close and patent rolls suggest that the Pulci family were being pursued by the king and their creditors and were fleeing England (CPR 1301-7, p.415; CCR 1302-7, p.426).
Related material

For a petition by the merchants of the company, see SC 8/66/3297

For another petition by creditors of the same company, see SC 8/323/E560

For a petition by the creditors of the same company, see SC 8/323/E559

For another petition by a creditor of the same company, see SC 8/321/E493

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 5679
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw I, vol. V, 1302-1307, (Public Record Office, 1908), p.426 (order to various sheriffs to seize the goods and bodies of merchants of the Pulci and Rembertinin companies)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. IV, 1301-1307, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.415 (request to the rulers of Florence to return merchants of the Pulci and Rembertini companies of Florence)
  • Three Early Petitions of the Commonalty, G.L. Haskins, (Speculum, XII, pp. 314-318, 1937), pp.315-16 (full edition of petition)
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