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? No Petitioner named Letter of the mayor and barons requesting remedy for Benedict...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/233/11626

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Reference
SC 8/233/11626
Date
1319
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Letter of the mayor and barons requesting remedy for Benedict Alard whose ship and goods have been seized in Brittany despite him not being culpable of anything, and the duke of Brittany does not wish to do anything.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Winchelsea, [Sussex]
Brittany, [France]
Le Conquet, [Brittany, France]
Cinque Ports.
People mentioned
Mayor and barons of the port of Winchelsea
[Edward II], King of England
Benedict Alard, Baron [of the Cinque Ports]
Duke of Brittany
Castellan of le Conquet
Gerveys Andreu (Andrew), Baron [of the Cinque Ports].
Note
The letter is dated in its dating clause to 20 April 1319 (12 Edw. II).
Related material

For a related petition by Benedict Alard, see SC 8/30/1478

For another letter from the same petitioners, see SC 8/192/9557

For a related petition from Alard, see SC 8/30/1479

For a related petition, see SC 8/178/8862

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9335185/

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