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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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? No Petitioner named [This document is damaged.]Letter from the mayor and citizens...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/191/9532
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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named [This document is damaged.]Letter from the mayor and citizens... dating from 1313 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 8/191/9532
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1313
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- ? No Petitioner named
- Nature of request
- [This document is damaged.]Letter from the mayor and citizens of London to Edward II, stating that the goods and merchandise of David de Cotesbrok, their fellow-citizen, were arrested by King Haakon of Norway, together with the goods and merchandise of various other merchants, because of an arrest wrongly and maliciously made at Lynn at the prosecution of Tydemann Lipp, merchant of Eastland. The King wrote to the King of Norway asking for these goods to be released, but he has done nothing, and has gone so far as to forbid any Englishman - with a few exceptions - to leave his land. They ask the King to provide David with a suitable remedy for the recovery of his goods and damages.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- London
- Norway
- King's Lynn, [Norfolk]
- Eastland.
- People mentioned
- [Edward II], King of England
- mayor and citizens of London
- [David de] Cotesbrok, citizen of London
- Haakon [V], King of Norway
- Tydemann Lipp, merchant of Eastland.
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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)
- Latin
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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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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
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- Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. I, 1307-1313, (Public Record Office, 1892), pp.527-528 (order to return the goods of Norwegian merchants, wrongly arrested at the suit of Tydemann Lipp)
- Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. II, 1313-1318, (Public Record Office, 1893), p.2 (order to the Sheriff of Norfolk to sell the goods of Norwegian merchants detained at King's Lynn, and to satisfy the petitioner's executors for his losses)
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Record URL
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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