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Burgesses of Libourne. King. The burgesses make three requests.1) They ask to be...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/122/6088

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Reference
SC 8/122/6088
Date
[? c. 1290-? c. 1303]
Description
Petitioners
Burgesses of Libourne.
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
The burgesses make three requests.1) They ask to be allowed to hold three fairs a year to help re-build the town, destroyed in the last war.2) They ask for the king's assistance in re-building and re-fortifying the town if needed, for the safety of the people.3) They request that the king order the seneschal of Gascony or his lieutenant to enquire that, if other people of the Dordogne are free and quit of taxes levied there, the burgesses should also be free from such taxes.1)
Nature of endorsement
Let the seneschal be ordered that they should have this if it is not prejudicial to the king.2) The King will make such payments as necessary.3) Let the seneschal be ordered to do what is right.Intra curiam in rotulo Regis.
Places mentioned
Libourne, [Guyenne, France]
Dordogne, [Guyenne, France].
People mentioned
Seneschal of Gascony.
Note
Dated on the guard to either? 1290, as given by Champollion, or? 1303, as given in AHG, vol. I, no.74.
Related material

For another petition from the burgesses see SC 8/122/6084

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 5165
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Archives historiques du Departement de la Gironde, vol. I, (, 1859), no.75 (full edition of petition and response)
  • Lettres des rois, reines et autres personages des cours de France et d'Angleterre depuis Louis VII jusqu'a Henri IV tirees des archives de Londres par Brequigny, vol. I (1162-1300), ed. M. Champollion-Figeac, (, 1839), pp.382 (no.290) (full edition of petition and responses)
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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9208258/

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