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? No Petitioner named Letter to the king requesting that the bailiffs of Dover be...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/270/13488

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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Letter to the king requesting that the bailiffs of Dover be... dating from [? 1248-? 1258] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/270/13488
Date
[? 1248-? 1258]
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Letter to the king requesting that the bailiffs of Dover be instructed to allow them to cross the sea as the bailiffs have been instructed not to permit this.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Lombardy
Dover, [Kent].
People mentioned
Henry III, King of England
John Saracen, Dean of Wells
Abbot of St Januarius, Lombardy
Peter de Cestria (Chester), kinsman and clerk of Edmund de Lacy
Edmund de Lasci (Lacy)
Nicholas de Abbde (Abingdon)
Walter Galtord, clerk of the king of Scotland
Guy, clerk and proctor of the earl marshal
Adam, clerk and proctor of the earl marshal
John, clerk of Lord Geoffrey de Lemniaco
Andrew, knight of the countess of Flanders
Walter, clerk of the Countess of Flanders
William de Valencia (Valence), clerk.
Note
The letter is dated to? 1248-? 1258 as it makes reference to Peter de Cestria, clerk of Edmund de Lacy, and if this Edmund de Lacy was the son of John de Lacy, earl of Lincoln, then he received livery of his estates in 1248 and died in 1258.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517435/

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