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Merchants of the Frescobaldi. [None]. The merchants request that they are able to...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/200/9966

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This record is about the Merchants of the Frescobaldi. [None]. The merchants request that they are able to... dating from [1307] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/200/9966
Date
[1307]
Description
Petitioners
Merchants of the Frescobaldi.
Addressees
[None].
Nature of request
The merchants request that they are able to have letters patent acquitting them of an inquisition concerning damage to the king's mine in Devon and of all other things by which they can be troubled concerning this.
Nature of endorsement
They are to have letters patent of acquittance of all inquisitions taken by reason of the king's silver mine in Devon lately being in their custody.
Places mentioned
Devon.
Note
The petition dates to 1307 as the merchants were acquitted on 30 March 1307 as requested (CPR 1301-7, p.512).
Related material

A page annexed to that petition is SC 8/47/2344

A related petition is SC 8/47/2343

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. IV, 1301-1307, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.512 (acquittance to the merchants of the Frescobaldi)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9295855/

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