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? No Petitioner named [Not specified] The Mayors and bailiffs are to inquire into...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/259/12944

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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named [Not specified] The Mayors and bailiffs are to inquire into... dating from [c. 1371-c. 1391] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/259/12944
Date
[c. 1371-c. 1391]
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Addressees
[Not specified]
Nature of request
The Mayors and bailiffs are to inquire into all merchants who had goods from the time of the arrest against those of Prussia, which were delivered because of the embassy, in order to charge them with contributing to the costs of the embassy, according to the proportion of the goods they had, and to inform the council of the names of those who refuse to contribute so that a remedy can be ordained.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Prussia.
People mentioned
Mayors and bailiffs of England.
Note
This document can be dated by the mention in SC 8/259/12945 of John de Brunham, elected Mayor of King's Lynn five times (in 1370, 1377, 1378. 1385 and 1391).
Related material

For the petition to which these instructions relate, see SC 8/259/12945

Held by
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/C9440557/

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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions

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