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? No Petitioner named Letter of the mayor, jurats and one hundred peers asking the...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/244/12195

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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Letter of the mayor, jurats and one hundred peers asking the... dating from [1342] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/244/12195
Date
[1342]
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Letter of the mayor, jurats and one hundred peers asking the king to expedite the case of St John against the men of Winchelsea for the seizure of goods from his ship.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Bayonne, [Gascony, France]
Winchelsea, [Sussex].
People mentioned
Mayors, jurats and one hundred peers of Bayonne
Edward III, King of England
Peter de Sancto Johanne (St John), citizen of Bayonne.
Note
The petition dates to 1342 as the privy seal warrant with which this petition was formerly enclosed dates to 12 May 1342 [16 Edw. III] (C 81/283/14732).
Related material

For another document with which this petition was formerly enclosed, see SC 8/245/12224

For the Chancery warrant in which this petition was apparently formerly enclosed, see no. 14732 in C 81/283

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/C9439800/

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