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? No Petitioner named Letter to Edward II from the Mayor, Aldermen and community...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/237/11803

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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Letter to Edward II from the Mayor, Aldermen and community... dating from 1325 in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/237/11803
Date
1325
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Letter to Edward II from the Mayor, Aldermen and community of London, stating that John le Whit of Almaine received several loans from merchants and citizens of London, and others, and then secretly fled the country with this money, now living, as they understand, in the territory of Henry, Lord of Mecklenburg, Burg Stargard and Rostock. They ask the King to write to Henry, so that by his help their fellow-citizens might recover their goods.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
London
Almaine
Mecklenburg, [Germany]
Burg Stargard, [Germany]
Rostock, [Germany]
Eastland.
People mentioned
Edward [II], King of England
Mayor, Aldermen and community of London
John le Whit (White) of Almaine
Richard de Hakeneye (Hackney), merchant and citizen of London
William Prodhome, merchant and citizen of London
Robert le Bret, merchant and citizen of London
John Priour (Prior), merchant and citizen of London
Richard de Betoigne, merchant and citizen of London
Henry le Palmere (Palmer), merchant and citizen of London
William le Hattere (Hatter), merchant and citizen of London
William de Betoigne, merchant and citizen of London
Raymond de Burdeux (Bordeaux), merchant and citizen of London
Thomas de ...nefeld, merchant and citizen of London
John de Wrotham, merchant and citizen of London
Adam de Salesbirs (Salisbury), merchant and citizen of London
John de Bal..., merchant and citizen of London
John le Balauncer, merchant and citizen of London
Ralph le Haltrer, merchant and citizen of London
Ralph de Chetyngdon
Henry, Lord of Mecklenburg, Burg Stargard and Rostock.
Related material

For a later letter on behalf of Richard de Hakeneye, see SC 8/236/11795

For a later related letter, see SC 8/237/11832

For a related letter, see SC 8/237/11810

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. IV, 1323-1327, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.548 (letter to the burgomasters, schöffen, aldermen and community of Lübeck, asking them to compel John le Whit and Arnold his brother to satisfy Richard de Hakeneye for what they owe him, and to punish them suitably)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9335363/

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