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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Philip de Leghton (Leyton), King's serjeant. de Leghton (Leyton) Philip King and...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/265/13229
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This record is about the Philip de Leghton (Leyton), King's serjeant. de Leghton (Leyton) Philip King and... dating from [c. 1309] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/265/13229
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1309]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Philip de Leghton (Leyton), King's serjeant.
- Name(s)
- de Leghton (Leyton), Philip
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Occupation
- King's serjeant
- Nature of request
- Leghton recounts that Manningtree loaded Leghton's ship and went from Ipswich to Het Zwin and then to St Valery, which is of the power of the count of Dreux and included in the truce of peace, with various merchandises, and the castellan of St Valery arrested the ship and its goods worth 200 marks and feloniously saying that they were enemies of the King of France, so that the petitioner has lost his ship worth 100 marks. The bailiffs of Ipswich asked the count and his castellan to have delivery but nothing was done. The petitioner requests that his ship be restored to him or that he may have a writ to take the value of his ship, with his losses, from the said count.
- Nature of endorsement
- He should come to Chancery to have letters ordained in this case.
- Places mentioned
- Ipswich, [Suffolk]
- la Swine (Het Zwin, River Zwin), [Netherlands]
- Seint Walleri (St Valery sur Somme), [France]
- Dreux, [Normandy, France].
- People mentioned
- Adam de Manitre (Manningtree), merchant and burgess of Ipswich
- Count of Dreux
- King of France.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- No date on the guard. In 1309 Philip de Leghton was the parliamentary burgess for Ipswich.
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517176/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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