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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Silvester du Chautellon, proctor and attorney of William du Fou and his companions....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/256/12755
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This record is about the Silvester du Chautellon, proctor and attorney of William du Fou and his companions.... dating from [? c. 1400-? c. 1405] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/256/12755
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? c. 1400-? c. 1405]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Silvester du Chautellon, proctor and attorney of William du Fou and his companions.
- Name(s)
- Chautellon, Silvester
- Addressees
- King.
- Occupation
- proctor and attorney of William du Fou and his companions
- Nature of request
- [This petition is badly damaged.]Silvester du Chautellon, proctor and attorney of William du Fou and his companions, complains about [the arrest of their ship by] Richard Spicer, and that they can have no delivery of this ship, although they have sent people to Plymouth to [sue for this]. He asks the King to order the Chancellor to order the . . . of Plymouth and all the King's other officers there [to make delivery] to the petitioner without delay.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Plymouth, [Devon].
- People mentioned
- Richard Spicer
- William du Fou
- [Thomas Percy], Earl of Worcester.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- CPR 1405-8 p.95 is dated 20 November 1405, and CPR 1399-1401 p.312 is dated 11 May 1400. This petition would seem to concern a similar matter, and is likely to be from roughly the same time.
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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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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
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- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen IV, vol. I, 1399-1401, (Public Record Office, 1903), p.312 (commission to arrest Richard Spicer and to seize a ship wrongly seized by him)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen IV, vol. III, 1405-1408, (Public Record Office, 1907), p.95 (commission of oyer et terminer in the matter of a robbery at sea by Richard Spicer)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9440362/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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