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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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? No Petitioner named Letter to Edward II from the Mayor and community of London,...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/235/11714
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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Letter to Edward II from the Mayor and community of London,... dating from 1309 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 8/235/11714
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1309
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- ? No Petitioner named
- Nature of request
- Letter to Edward II from the Mayor and community of London, stating that their fellow citizen, Henry Scof, lately had the King's letters to the Count of Flanders, asking him to make restitution for Henry's ship and goods, stolen from him by Flemish malefactors at the port of Zwijn; but that the Count has refused to do anything. They ask the King to provide Henry with a suitable remedy.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- London
- Flanders
- River Zwijn, [Belgium].
- People mentioned
- Edward [II], King of England
- Mayor and community of London
- Henry Scof, citizen of London
- [Robert III], Count of Flanders.
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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)
- Latin
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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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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. I, 1307-1313, (Public Record Office, 1892), p.104 (order to the Abbot of Ramsey's bailiffs at St Ives to arrest goods of Flemish merchants to make restitution to the petitioner) & p.116 (similar order to the Earl of Richmond's bailiffs at Boston)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9335273/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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