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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Item
Mown, merchant of Guerande;2) Nicholas Frote, merchant of Cancale;3) John Cemoulin;4)...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/177/8821
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This record is about the Mown, merchant of Guerande;2) Nicholas Frote, merchant of Cancale;3) John Cemoulin;4)... dating from [c. 1400-c. 1450] 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 8/177/8821
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1400-c. 1450]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Mown, merchant of Guerande;2) Nicholas Frote, merchant of Cancale;3) John Cemoulin;4) Missing;5) Nicholas Frote, merchant of Cancale;6) William le Boullart, and Ivo le Saux, merchants of ...;7) John Guillot;8) John de Lannion;9) John Huet, merchant of Lannion;10) John le Grindalle.
- Name(s)
- Mown; Frote; Cemoulin; Frote; Boullart; Saux; Guillot; de Lannion; Huet; Grindalle, Nicholas; John; Nicholas; William; Ivo; John; John; John; John
- Addressees
- King.
- Occupation
- merchant; merchants
- Nature of request
- Petition in ten parts, from various people, all seemingly Breton merchants or sailors. They all appear to request the restoration of their ships and cargo, but the document has suffered extensive damage, and this, coupled with the indistinct handwriting, makes the sense of many of the requests difficult to reconstruct. The precise spelling of many of the personal names is also unclear.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Gueirande (Guerande), [Brittany, France]
- La Poull (Poole), [Dorset]
- Cancale, [Brittany, France]
- Brittany, [France]
- Lannion, [Brittany, France]
- Spain.
- People mentioned
- Duke of Brittany
- Jacques Hoges of Poole
- Godfrey Plantur
- Richard Gruth
- Michael le Provost
- Nicholas [...]
- Richard Dyercestie
- Richard Cantel
- Jacques Sauson.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to the first half of the fifteenth century solely on the basis of the hand.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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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/C9294689/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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