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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Berdu du Meistre, servant of Austyn Jordan. Meistre Berdu King and Council. Berdu...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/127/6349
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This record is about the Berdu du Meistre, servant of Austyn Jordan. Meistre Berdu King and Council. Berdu... dating from [c. 1340] 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 8/127/6349
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1340]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Berdu du Meistre, servant of Austyn Jordan.
- Name(s)
- Meistre, Berdu
- Addressees
- King and Council.
- Nature of request
- Berdu du Meistre requests the restoration of the keepership of the prisons of [...] Bordeaux, granted to him for his long service to the king. During the king's visit to Flanders, the office was granted to Claverie, and he has now been ousted.
- Nature of endorsement
- Order the present seneschal of Gascony to view the petitioner's letters, and if he is still in possession of the keepership and has committed no trespass by which he ought to have been removed before the end of his term, he shall have possession of his full term notwithstanding the grant to William; and after the term has ended, William shall have the keepership, if he lives, according to the terms of his grant.
- Places mentioned
- Seynt Emond Bury (Bury St Edmunds), [Suffolk]
- [Bordeaux, Gascony, France]
- Flanders
- Gascony, [France].
- People mentioned
- Austyn Jordan
- John Darcy
- Guillaume Reymond (William Raymond) de la Claverie.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition clearly makes reference to Edward III's Flanders campaign of 1339-40, and thus presumably the petition dates from shortly thereafter.
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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 5865
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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/C9208526/
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