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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Mayor and people of York. Council. The petitioners seek damages and compensation,...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/103/5137
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This record is about the Mayor and people of York. Council. The petitioners seek damages and compensation,... dating from [c. 1374-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 8/103/5137
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1374-c. 1377]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Mayor and people of York.
- Addressees
- Council.
- Nature of request
- The petitioners seek damages and compensation, and that Robert de Wykford should come before the king's council, through whose discretion a remedy be ordered by law and reason. They show that the king ordered their boat to Bordeaux for wines, which encountered an enemy ship on the sea. They captured the ship and took it to Bordeaux where Wykford (by colour of his office), took the ship on the morning of 6 December 1374, wrongly and without reason together with 24 tons of wheat etc.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let them have an order to the treasurer ... this present parliament ... Wednesday next ... the matters contained in this petition.
- Places mentioned
- York
- Bordeaux, [Guyenne, France]
- La Rochelle, [Poitou, France].
- People mentioned
- Robert de Wykford, lately Constable of Bordeaux.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Internal evidence relating to Alice Perrers dates this petition to early in the reign of Richard II.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a duplicate of this petition, without endorsement, see SC 8/103/5133
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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 2152
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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/C9149707/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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