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? No Petitioner named Letter of the consuls of Ghent to Edward I acknowledging receipt...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/271/13503

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Reference
SC 8/271/13503
Date
[c. 1305]
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Letter of the consuls of Ghent to Edward I acknowledging receipt of letters from the king asking them to make restitution for the arrest of certain wools and other goods belonging to certain citizens and merchants of London on account of a bond, and promising to inquire into this, although for various reasons they are to busy to do this at present and ask to be excused.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Ghent, [Belgium]
London
Flanders
France.
People mentioned
Consuls of Ghent
Citizens and merchants of London
Robert III, Count of Flanders.
Note
The letter appears to be in response to a letter of the king to its authors which dates to 23 August 1302 (CCR 1296-1302, pp.555-6). However the reference to the coming of Count Robert would seem to date it to after Robert III's release from captivity in 1305.
Related material

For a related letter of Edward I to the bailiffs and echevins of Ghent, see no.49 in SC 1/13

For a related document, see SC 8/313/E46

For a petition of the citizens of London on the same matter, see SC 8/121/6004

For a letter from the bailiifs, echevins and consuls in reply to the king's letters, see no.20 in SC 1/18

For transcript, see ff.87-88 of PRO 31/7/93

For a petition by certain citizens of London on the same matter, see SC 8/193/9650

For a petition from certain merchants of London on the same matter, see SC 8/121/6003

For a petition by certain merchants of London, see SC 8/271/13504

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw I, vol. IV, 1296-1302, (Public Record Office, 1906), pp.555-6 (letter of Edward I to the mayor, bailiffs and echevins of Ghent concerning their arrest of English merchants and their goods as part of the escalation of the dispute between the count of Flanders and the king)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517450/

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