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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Inhabitants of Labourd. King and council. The inhabitants of Labourd make four requests:1)...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/238/11867
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This record is about the Inhabitants of Labourd. King and council. The inhabitants of Labourd make four requests:1)... dating from [1310-1311] 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 8/238/11867
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1310-1311]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Inhabitants of Labourd.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The inhabitants of Labourd make four requests:1) They ask the King to ratify and confirm by his letters patent a grant made by the Bishop of Norwich and John de Bretagne, Earl of Richmond that they should be quit of service of lodging for a certain payment.2) They ask the King to ratify and confirm an agreement made by the Constable of Bordeaux with the inhabitants of the parish of St Leon and the Lord of the house of Rupe and all others of Labourd, that they should be quit of all moneys owed to the King for a certain sum.3) They ask the King to order the Seneschal of Gascony to remove fisheries in the River Demyne that are a danger to shipping.4) They ask the King to order the Seneschal of Gascony to order the nobles of the land to cease introducing foreign livestock into the pastures and herbages of the land, as this is ruinous for the common people.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Labourd, [Gascony, France]
- St Leon, [Gascony, France]
- River Demyne [unidentified].
- People mentioned
- [John Salmon], Bishop of Norwich
- John de Bretagne (Brittany), Earl of Richmond
- Lord of the house of Rupe.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Datable to 1310-1311, with reference to the Earl of Richmond as the King's Lieutenant in Gascony and the Bishop of Norwich as one of his commissaries.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a duplicate of this petition, with responses, see SC 8/262/13089
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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)
- French
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9335427/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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