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Consuls and people of the bastide of Ste-Foy-la-Grande. King. The Consuls and people...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/96/4785

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This record is about the Consuls and people of the bastide of Ste-Foy-la-Grande. King. The Consuls and people... dating from [1305] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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SC 8/96/4785
Date
[1305]
Description
Petitioners
Consuls and people of the bastide of Ste-Foy-la-Grande.
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
The Consuls and people of the bastide of Ste-Foy-la-Grande state that they intend to build a bridge over the Dordogne; and, because the King receives £100 in small Turnois from the port of Ste-Foy, they ask that they might be able to assign these rents elsewhere, and to build their bridge, which will be to their great advantage.
Nature of endorsement
The Seneschal is to be ordered that if he finds that they can make the bridge without harm to the King or prejudice to anyone else, he is to grant it.
Places mentioned
Ste-Foy-la-Grande, [Guyenne, France]
Agen diocese
River Dordogne.
Note
Dated on the guard to 1305 with reference to Roles Gascons, vol. III, no.4738.
Related material

For a petition formerly attached to this one, see SC 8/96/4777

For transcript, see p.1 of PRO 31/7/119

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 1030
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Roles Gascons, vol. III (1290-1307), ed. C. Bemont, (, 1906), no.4738 (resultant writ to the seneschal of the Agenais)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149351/

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