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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Mayor, jurats and commons of the city of Dax. King. [This petition is badly faded...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/273/13634
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This record is about the Mayor, jurats and commons of the city of Dax. King. [This petition is badly faded... dating from [? c. 1385-? c. 1399] 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 8/273/13634
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? c. 1385-? c. 1399]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Mayor, jurats and commons of the city of Dax.
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- [This petition is badly faded in places.]The petitioners state that the king has recently granted to . . . de Mountbron, esquire of the Duchy £20 of English money annually from the revenues of the town and fortress of Gamarde, and ask that, in compensation for the costs and expenses they have suffered during the siege of Gamarde, they might be granted the remainder of the rents, revenues and profits from Gamarde and its appurtenances, and also that they might have the lordship of Auribat and its bailles and those of Gamarde, and the rents and profits belonging to them, for the repair and preservation of their town, as they are on the frontier.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Dax, [Gascony, France]
- Guyenne, [France]
- Gamarde (Gamarde-les-Bains), [Gascony, France]
- Aurivat (Auribat), [Gascony, France].
- People mentioned
- [...] de Mountbron, esquire
- Count of Armagnac
- Count of Foix
- [Lord of Albret].
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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/C9517581/
Series information
SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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