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Citizens of London. [None specified] [Associated petition with SC 8/121/6003]The...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/121/6004

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This record is about the Citizens of London. [None specified] [Associated petition with SC 8/121/6003]The... dating from [c. 1302] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/121/6004
Date
[c. 1302]
Description
Petitioners
Citizens of London.
Addressees
[None specified]
Nature of request
[Associated petition with SC 8/121/6003]The citizens of London request the restoration of goods seized in Ghent by the bailiffs of the King of France. They have been taken at the suit of two burgesses of Ghent in connection with a debt owed to them, although the merchants claim that it had been paid, and the matter resolved as part of an agreement between the king and Countess Margaret made at Montreuil to resolve damages inflicted by Flemings on English merchants.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
London
Ghent, [Belgium]
Mostroil (Montreuil), [Artois, France]
Flanders.
People mentioned
[Philip IV], King of France
Henri le Joesnes, burgess of Ghent
Simon del Brede (Breda), burgess of Ghent
Margaret [of Flanders], Countess of Flanders.
Note
This petition and that at SC 8/121/6003 form part of a long-running dispute between the English crown and the rulers of Flanders, involving debts and the seizure of the goods of merchants from both sides. A letter sent by Edward I to the officials of Ghent on 23 August 1302 appears to have been in response to these petitions (SC 1/13/49, calendared in CCR 1296-1302, pp.555-6).
Related material

For a letter of Edward I to the officials of Ghent on this matter see no.49 in SC 1/13

For a related petition see SC 8/193/9650

For the response of the people of Ghent see no 20 in SC 1/18

For a related petition, see SC 8/121/6003

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 4993
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw I, vol. IV, 1296-1302, (Public Record Office, 1906), pp.555-6 (calendar of letter to the officials of Ghent on this matter (SC 1/13/49))
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9208170/

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