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? No Petitioner named Letter from alderman and commonalty of the city of London requesting...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/158/7896

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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Letter from alderman and commonalty of the city of London requesting... 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 8/158/7896
Date
[c. 1335]
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Letter from alderman and commonalty of the city of London requesting the good will of the justices and informing them of their attorneys in the business with Great Yarmouth.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
London
Great Yarmouth, [Norfolk].
People mentioned
Geoffrey Lescrop (Scrope), justice
Richard de Rothynge, attorney for London
Richard de [Lost], attorney for London.
Note
The letter is dated to c. 1335 with the preceding related writ and petitions (SC 8/158/7893-5), the dating clause not being sufficiently complete to give the full date.
Related material

For a related writ, see SC 8/158/7893

For a related petition, see SC 8/158/7894

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9210088/

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