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Raymund de Mercadili, burgess of Penne d'Agenais and merchant of the duke of Aquitaine....

Catalogue reference: SC 8/274/13678

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This record is about the Raymund de Mercadili, burgess of Penne d'Agenais and merchant of the duke of Aquitaine.... dating from [c. 1310-c. 1335] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/274/13678
Date
[c. 1310-c. 1335]
Description
Petitioners
Raymund de Mercadili, burgess of Penne d'Agenais and merchant of the duke of Aquitaine.
Name(s)
Mercadili, Raymund
Addressees
King.
Occupation
merchant of the duke of Aquitaine
Nature of request
Mercadili requests that the seneschal of Gascony be commanded to cease his disturbance of the petitioner, and restore his goods to him if he is able to prove that he is not culpable of the deaths of Donodei and Calliaveto. His enemies have procured to have him falsely accused of the deaths of Donodei and Calliaveto near Agen in the jurisdiction of the king of France by the pretext of which his goods were seized.
Nature of endorsement
Let it be ordered to the seneschal that he enquire of the truth of the things contained in the petition doing to the petitioner what is just according to the form of the petition and according to the laws and customs of those parts.
Places mentioned
Penne d'Agenais, [Guyenne, France]
Agen, [Guyenne, France].
People mentioned
Stephen Donodei
John de Cailliaveto.
Note
The petition is speculatively dated to c. 1310-c. 1335 on the basis of the hand.
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/C9517625/

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