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Richard Broun (Brown). Broun (Brown) Richard King. Broun requests that the King grant...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/250/12494

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Reference
SC 8/250/12494
Date
[1387]
Description
Petitioners
Richard Broun (Brown).
Name(s)
Broun (Brown), Richard
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Broun requests that the King grant him a writ of protection directed to all mayors, bailiffs and other officials not to trouble or arrest him in his collection of gifts and demises for the work of the bridge of Sudbury, mentioning in the writ how the bridge was destroyed by violent floods and then frozen.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Sudbury, Suffolk.
Note
Dated on the guard to 1387, since this is the date of the Chancery warrant with which it was formerly enclosed (C 81/496 no.4346).
Related material

For the Chancery writ in which this was formerly enclosed see no.4346 of C 81/496

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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/C9440100/

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