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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Adam Botoner of Coventry, merchant of the staple. Botoner Adam King and all the lords...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/93/4620
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This record is about the Adam Botoner of Coventry, merchant of the staple. Botoner Adam King and all the lords... dating from [c. 1377] 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 8/93/4620
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1377]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Adam Botoner of Coventry, merchant of the staple.
- Name(s)
- Botoner, Adam
- Addressees
- King and all the lords in parliament.
- Occupation
- merchant of the staple
- Nature of request
- Botoner requests that he and his servants are discharged to the king of the sums and mainprises as reason demands as Luk stole a certain sum from a sum by Luk, and Stockton and the other servants who then took it back for which they were imprisoned and the sum forfeited, and Botoner found mainprise to answer to the king for the fine for his servants.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let it be known that this bill [was read] in parliament, and already called there William de Ermyn, treasurer of Calais, and the evidences which he showed, and what he had to say for the king, and the supplicant on this matter, and considering the arguments in the presence of the justices of both benches, it is adjudged that the petitioner has and retains freely his money, and that he and his servants and their mainpernors should not be troubled by the king and his ministers, and they should have writs on this.
- Places mentioned
- Coventry, [Warwickshire]
- Calais, [France].
- People mentioned
- Thomas Luk
- Thomas Stokton (Stockton), servant of the petitioner
- Adam Dodenhale, servant of the petitioner
- John Brinstoke, servant of the petitioner
- William de Ermyn, treasurer of Calais.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Datable to early in the reign of Richard II on the basis of the address and the reference to William Ermyn as treasurer of Calais.
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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 711
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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/C9149171/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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