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John Blank, citizen of Bayonne. Blank John King and council. Blank requests that...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/280/13993

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SC 8/280/13993
Date
[c. 1301]
Description
Petitioners
John Blank, citizen of Bayonne.
Name(s)
Blank, John
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Blank requests that the King grant him a letter or order the mayor and jurats of Bayonne to pay him £6 which he loaned them to farm Bayonne, since the King has given them £100 to farm the town from which he should have been repaid but was not.
Nature of endorsement
The mayor and jurats of Bayonne should be ordered to pay if it is as is said.
Places mentioned
Bayonne, [Gascony, France].
People mentioned
Mayor and jurats of Bayonne.
Note
Dated on the guard to c. 1301, with reference to Roles Gascons, vol. III, 4564, a 1302 letter from the King to his lieutenants in Aquitaine regarding Blank.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Royal letters 4682.
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Roles Gascons, vol. III (1290-1307), ed. C. Bemont, (, 1906), 4564 (King's letter re Blank)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517944/

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