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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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John le Veys, merchant of Bristol, and Catherine le Veys his wife. Veys; Veys John;...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/120/5988
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/120/5988
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1309-1314]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John le Veys, merchant of Bristol, and Catherine le Veys his wife.
- Name(s)
- Veys; Veys, John; Catherine
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Occupation
- merchant of Bristol
- Nature of request
- John le Veys, merchant of Bristol, and Catherine his wife state that in the twenty-first year of the King's father, Thomas Cantok, formerly Chancellor of Ireland, and John, his brother and lieutenant, took £150 worth of merchandise from Terry de la Bruere, merchant of Flanders, and then husband of Catherine and lord and master of John, by reason of their office. However, they did not pay him on the day appointed for this, but gave him another day, and before then the goods and merchandise of alien merchants in Ireland had been taken into the King's hand because of his war with the King of France. After this day Thomas and John said that the money was now the King's and that they would only pay him: but they never paid him either. John and Catherine acknowledge the King's right to the money, and ask him to levy it from Roger Cantok, brother and heir of Thomas and John, and to give them some consideration at his pleasure. They ask that this petition might be sent to the Treasurer, so that he can summon Roger to answer on this, to them and to the King.
- Nature of endorsement
- [On face] Pro rege.[On dorse] The petition is not just.
- Places mentioned
- Bristol
- Ireland
- Flanders
- Dublin, [Ireland]
- France
- Aust Cliff, Gloucestershire
- Hardwick [unidentified]
- Lincoln diocese.
- People mentioned
- Thomas Cantok, formerly Chancellor of Ireland
- John [Cantok], brother of Thomas Cantok and lieutenant Chancellor of Ireland
- Edward [I], King of England
- Terry (Thierry) de la Bruere (Brewer), merchant of Flanders
- [Philip IV], King of France
- Roger Cantok, brother of Thomas and John Cantok.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated to c 1309-1314 with reference to the death of Thomas Cantok in February 1309 (as in 'Irish Ancient Petitions' p.43) and a lawsuit in the Exchequer of Pleas of 1314
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a lawsuit in the Exchequer of Pleas, William Servat and Catherine, plaintiffs, see E 13/37
For another petition from the same petitioners, see SC 8/77/3826
For an earlier petition from Catherine, see SC 8/36/1791
For transcript, see no.124 of PRO 31/7/97
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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 4971
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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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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Irish Material in the Class of Ancient Petitions (SC 8) in the Public Record Office, Analecta Hibernica, vol. XXIV, P. Connolly, (Stationery Office of Ireland, 1987), p.43 (brief calendar of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9150681/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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