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Merchants of London and Bristol and the mariners of Dover. King [of France] 1) The...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/273/13609

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Reference
SC 8/273/13609
Date
[c. 1333]
Description
Petitioners
Merchants of London and Bristol and the mariners of Dover.
Addressees
King [of France]
Nature of request
1) The merchants and mariners request that the king of France order his justices and wardens of the ports and marches to cease their disturbance of them and certify the king on this as they have been prevented from returning to England with horses that they have bought, and their ships have been arrested.2) They request that the acts and agreements made between the king and the king of England be kept.Writ of Philip VI commanding that the complaints of the merchants be heard without delay so that the king hears nothing more of it.
Nature of endorsement
Memorandum of Meloun reciting a writ of Philip VI to several seneschals and similar to the writ recited on the face, and recording that Meloun had affixed the seal of the prevote of Paris.They are to go to parliament because these things do not belong to the chamber of accounts; and with regard to the horses and armour concerning which it was done so that they will not be taken out of the realm, a general prohibition was made throughout the whole realm of France.
Places mentioned
London
Bristol
Dover, [Kent]
Wissant, [Picardy, France]
Calais, [France]
Paris, [France].
People mentioned
Philip VI, King of France
Philip IV, King of France
Edward III, King of England
Edward I, King of England
John de Meloun, keeper of the prevote of Paris
Seneschal of Toulouse
Seneschal of Saintonge
Seneschal of Perigord
Seneschal of the Agenais
Seneschal of Amiens.
Note
The petition is dated to c. 1333 on the basis of the dating of the two writs recited in the petition.
Related material

For a related petition, also evidently addressed to the King of France, see SC 8/181/9002

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French and Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517556/

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