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? No Petitioner named [The petition is largely illegible].Writ of Edward III to make...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/158/7893

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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named [The petition is largely illegible].Writ of Edward III to make... dating from [c. 1335] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/158/7893
Date
[c. 1335]
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
[The petition is largely illegible].Writ of Edward III to make 8 burgesses of Great Yarmouth come to the next parliament with their charters in a matter concerning Little Yarmouth . . .
Nature of endorsement
The names of the burgesses of Great Yarmouth and their pledges.It is answered of the names . . . Perbroun and others, bailiffs of the town of Great Yarmouth . . .
Places mentioned
Great Yarmouth, [Norfolk]
Little Yarmouth, [Suffolk]
Gorleston, [Norfolk]
Nottingham, [Nottinghamshire].
People mentioned
Edward III, King of England
Thomas . . .
Thomas S. . .e
William G. . .sele
Roger de Drayton
Robert de Corpesty
John de Fyleby
William . . .
Robert . . .
Henry de Rollesby
John Feryare
Thomas Cobald
Richard de Fyleby
William de Lyncoln (Lincoln)
Robert . . .
John de Castre (Caister)
Adam de Cantele
Stephen Dorlang
William de Thorp
John Perbroun, bailiff of Great Yarmouth
Thomas de Drayton, bailiff of Great Yarmouth
Richard . . ., bailiff of Great Yarmouth
Robert Elys (Ellis), bailiff of Great Yarmouth.
Note
The writ itself is dated in its dating clause to 3 April 1335 (9 Edw. III), and the petition to which it was attached is dated to c. 1335 on the basis of it (SC 8/158/7894).
Related material

For a related letter of attorney, see SC 8/158/7896

For the petition to which this writ was formerly attached, see SC 8/158/7894

For another petition on the same matter, see SC 8/158/7895

For a related petition, see SC 8/158/7897

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9210085/

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