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? No Petitioner named Letters patent of the bailiffs and burgesses requesting remedy...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/270/13481

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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Letters patent of the bailiffs and burgesses requesting remedy... dating from [1309] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/270/13481
Date
[1309]
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Letters patent of the bailiffs and burgesses requesting remedy for Combes who sold two sacks of wool to Someryngham and his brother, and despite the king writing to the mayor and eschevins of Bruges and to the count of Flanders, Combes still has not been paid.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Ipswich, [Suffolk]
Bruges, [Belgium].
People mentioned
Bailiffs and burgesses of Ipswich
Edward II, King of England
Nicholas de Combes, burgess of Ipswich
Lambsine de Someryngham, burgess of Bruges
Copyn [de Someryngham], brother of Lambsine and burgess of Bruges.
Note
The petition dates to 1309 as it must be nearly contemporary with the letter of Edward II to the count of Flanders which is dated to 24 October 1309 (SC 8/270/13474).
Related material

For a related document, see SC 8/337/15947

For the writ with which this petition was apparently enclosed, see SC 8/270/13474

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. I, 1307-1313, (Public Record Office, 1892), p.234 (enrolment of the king's letter to count of Flanders)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517428/

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