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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
John de la Nief, burgess of St Macaire. de la Nief John King and council. burgess...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/209/10445
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This record is about the John de la Nief, burgess of St Macaire. de la Nief John King and council. burgess... dating from [c. 1348-c. 1350] 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 8/209/10445
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1348-c. 1350]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John de la Nief, burgess of St Macaire.
- Name(s)
- de la Nief, John
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Occupation
- burgess of St Macaire
- Nature of request
- The petitioner, as the king's proctor of St Macaire, reports the great poverty of the town and castle as a result of the pestilence and mortality, requests letters of safe-conduct for Saus, Spynel, Counkes and Geraud, and asks that Passeran, Pasterel and de Ruan be appointed sergeants of the town, the three previous sergeants having died in the mortality.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None.]
- Places mentioned
- St Macaire, [Gascony, France].
- People mentioned
- Thomas Cok, seneschal of Gascony
- John Saus
- Vital Spynel
- Arnaud de Counkes
- John Geraud
- Pierre Passeran
- Vital Pasterel
- Garcioun de Ruan.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- From internal evidence this petition appears to date from the time of the first outbreak of the Black Death.
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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/C9334002/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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