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Stephen Angevin, merchant of Bayonne. Angevin Stephen King and lords of parliament....

Catalogue reference: SC 8/88/4390

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This record is about the Stephen Angevin, merchant of Bayonne. Angevin Stephen King and lords of parliament.... dating from [? 1381-? 1382] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/88/4390
Date
[? 1381-? 1382]
Description
Petitioners
Stephen Angevin, merchant of Bayonne.
Name(s)
Angevin, Stephen
Addressees
King and lords of parliament.
Occupation
merchant of Bayonne
Nature of request
Stephen Angevin states that while he was returning to the coast at Bayonne with wines he had bought for himself and for two other merchants he was arrested at Mont-de-Marsan and imprisoned by the Count of Foix, who claimed that the people of Bayonne had received certain subjects of the King of England who had intended to assassinate him. The King and other lords later wrote to the Count, to compensate Stephen for his losses and damages, but with no success. He requests letters of mark against the Count's people and their goods anywhere in Aquitaine, or compensation for his losses in some other reasonable manner.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Bayonne, [Gascony, France]
London
Salisbury, [Wiltshire]
Mont-de-Marsan, [Gascony, France]
Aquitaine, [France].
People mentioned
Gilbert Maufeld, citizen and merchant of London
Nicholas Taillour (Taylor), merchant of Salisbury
[Gaston III Fébus, Phoebus], Count of Foix.
Note
This is dated on the guard to '? 1381-? 1382'. There is no evidence to confirm this, but on the basis of the hand the date seems plausible.
Related material

For a near-duplicate of this petition, see SC 8/88/4391

For transcript, see no.87 of PRO 31/7/108

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 113
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9148932/

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