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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
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Inhabitants of Biarritz. King. A letter to the King from the inhabitants of Biarritz,...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/191/9545
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/191/9545
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? c. 1308]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Inhabitants of Biarritz.
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- A letter to the King from the inhabitants of Biarritz, stating that during the war between the King's progenitor and King of France, Vergers, their fellow-citizen, was returning from Spain with a cargo of wheat when Nicholas Petri, bailiff of Bermeo, stole it and carried it off to Bermeo. Petri and the inhabitants of Bermeo have often been asked for compensation, but have done nothing, and letters from the King to the alcaldes and inhabitants of the town asking for justice have produced no effect. They ask the King to ordain some suitable remedy.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Biarritz, [Gascony, France]
- Bayonne, [Gascony, France]
- Spain
- Bermeo, [Spain].
- People mentioned
- Guillaume Arnaud (William Arnold) de Vergers, citizen of Biarritz
- Nicholas Petri, bailiff of Bermeo.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated to the Tuesday after the conversion of St Paul (25 January), but no year is given. From the hand and the contents, the petition would seem most likely to date from early in the reign of Edward II.
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9295430/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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