William le Taillour, merchant of Dublin. Taillour William King and council. merchant...

Petitioners

William le Taillour, merchant of Dublin.

Name(s)

Taillour, William

Addressees

King and council.

Occupation

merchant of Dublin

Nature of request

William le Taillour, merchant of Dublin, states that he had loaded a ship in Bordeaux with wine and other merchandise to take to Gerard Chabout in Port du Collet, and that when he came to Gerard's country, Gerard and his people wrongly took twenty-five tuns and one pipe of wine from him, and still hold them. He asks the King to write to the Seneschal, Mayor and Bailiffs of Bordeaux to put right this wrong, according to the law and usages of the land.

Nature of endorsement

The Seneschal of Bordeaux is to be written to that, when he has called the parties, he is to do justice to him etc.

Places mentioned

Dublin, [Ireland]

Bordeaux, [Guyenne, France]

Colet (Port du Collet), Brittany, [France].

People mentioned

Gerard Chabout of Port du Collet.

For a related petition from the same petitioner, see SC 8/219/10941

• Irish Material in the Class of Ancient Petitions (SC 8) in the Public Record Office, Analecta Hibernica, vol. XXIV, P. Connolly, (Stationery Office of Ireland, 1987), p.82 (brief calendar of petition)
• Memoranda de Parliamento, or Records of the Parliament holden at Westminster, 25 Edw I, Ed. F.W. Maitland, (Rolls Series, vol. XCVIII, 1893), p.236 (no.410) (full edition of petition and Latin summary on parliament roll)
• The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), roll 12, appendix, no. 493 (full edition and translation of petition)