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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Burgesses and community of Kingston upon Hull. King. Letter from the burgesses and...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/192/9573
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This record is about the Burgesses and community of Kingston upon Hull. King. Letter from the burgesses and... dating from 1319 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 8/192/9573
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1319
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Burgesses and community of Kingston upon Hull.
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- Letter from the burgesses and community of Kingston upon Hull to Edward II, complaining that Baldwin Rose of Le Muthe and others from the power of the Count of Flanders attacked a ship belonging to Geoffrey de Sprotley and Hugh le Taverner, burgesses of Kingston upon Hull, sailing from Sluis to Hull, killed Geoffrey and the sailors, and carried off the goods and chattels to Het Zwin, and asking him to provide a suitable remedy for Hugh le Taverner, with regard to his share in the ship and goods.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Kingston upon Hull, [East Riding of Yorkshire]
- Sluis, [Netherlands]
- Flanders
- Swyn (Het Zwin), [Belgium]
- Le Muthe [unidentified].
- People mentioned
- Geoffrey de Sprotley, burgess of Kingston upon Hull
- Hugh le Taverner, burgess of Kingston upon Hull
- Baldwin Rose of Le Muthe
- [Robert III], Count of Flanders.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated 12 May 12 Edward II (1319).CCR 1318-23 pp.163-4 is dated 2 November 1319.
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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)
- Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1318-1323, (Public Record Office, 1895), pp.163-4 (order of reprisals against the men of the power of the Count of Flanders, given to the bailiffs of Ravenser Odd and Yarmouth at the request of two merchants who lost goods in this ship)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9295458/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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