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? No Petitioner named Writ of certiorari of Richard II to the mayor and bailiffs...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/214/10651

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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Writ of certiorari of Richard II to the mayor and bailiffs... dating from 1386 in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/214/10651
Date
1386
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Writ of certiorari of Richard II to the mayor and bailiffs of Lincoln concerning goods and merchandises of Prussian merchants arrested in Lincoln at the suit of various English merchants in the name of reprisal for their goods and merchandises arrested in Prussia, and of their true value. The mayor and bailiffs are ordered to return to the Chancery the writ under their seal at the feast of St Thomas the Martyr next, remitting the said goods and merchandises to the King.
Nature of endorsement
Response of the mayor and bailiffs of Lincoln: No goods or merchandises of Prussian merchants were arrested at the suit of any English merchants in the name of reprisal for any of their goods and merchandises arrested in Prussia, nor for any other reason, in the liberty of Lincoln, as this writ supposes.
Places mentioned
Lincoln, [Lincolnshire]
Prussia
Westminster.
People mentioned
Richard II, King of England
[John de] Burton
John Norman, mayor of Lincoln
John de York, bailiff of Lincoln
John Belasyse, bailiff of Lincoln
Thomas de Hudleston (Huddleston), bailiff of Lincoln
Mayor and bailiffs of Lincoln.
Note
Dated internally to 17 June in the ninth year of Richard II (1386).
Related material

For a related writ see SC 8/214/10652

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9334208/

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