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

Catalogue reference: SC 8/214/10657

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

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Reference
SC 8/214/10657
Date
1386
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Writ of certiorari of Richard II to the bailiffs of Boston concerning goods and merchandises of Prussian merchants arrested in Boston 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 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
[None].
Places mentioned
St Botulf (Boston), [Lincolnshire]
Prussia
Westminster.
People mentioned
Richard II, King of England
[John de] Burton
Bailiffs of Boston.
Note
Dated internally to 17 June in the ninth year of Richard II (1386).
Related material

For the response to this writ see SC 8/214/10665

For a related writ see SC 8/214/10651

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/C9334214/

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