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Rolandin (Roland, Orlando) de Podie (Poge), merchant of the society of the Riccardi...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/260/12959

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This record is about the Rolandin (Roland, Orlando) de Podie (Poge), merchant of the society of the Riccardi... dating from [? c. 1296-? c. 1309] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/260/12959
Date
[? c. 1296-? c. 1309]
Description
Petitioners
Rolandin (Roland, Orlando) de Podie (Poge), merchant of the society of the Riccardi of Lucca.
Name(s)
de Podie (Poge), Rolandin (Roland, Orlando)
Addressees
King and council.
Occupation
merchant of the society of the Riccardi of Lucca
Nature of request
Rolandin de Podie states that the King and council ordained that all merchants of Spain, Bayonne and elsewhere should bring their goods to Sandwich for the benefit of the realm of England, and that on account of news he had of their stay there, the King, in order to prevent the Spanish merchants carrying their goods out of the country, leading to shortages, ordered the merchants of Lucca to buy up all the merchandise of the Spanish merchants and their companions, promising to give them an allowance for any loss they would incur from such a purchase. They have lost 3000 marks and more in this transaction, but have had no allowance. They ask that this sum might be allowed against the debt that they owe the King.
Nature of endorsement
Those who have been assigned are to audit the account for these things as for others.
Places mentioned
Lucca, [Italy]
Spain
Bayonne, [Gascony, France]
Sandwich, [Kent].
People mentioned
Merchants of the society of the Riccardi of Lucca
merchants of Spain.
Note
This petition may have been attached to SC 8/260/12970, which can be dated on internal evidence to the reign of Edward I after 1296; but Rolandin was still active in England in 1309, as CPR 1307-13 p.120, dated 11 June 1309, shows, and the petition may be as late as this.
Related material

For another petition from the same petitioner, see SC 8/260/12970

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/C9516903/

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