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Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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? No Petitioner named Letter to the Chancellor from the Mayor and Bailiffs of York,...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/297/14835
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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Letter to the Chancellor from the Mayor and Bailiffs of York,... dating from [? c. 1361] 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 8/297/14835
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? c. 1361]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- ? No Petitioner named
- Nature of request
- Letter to the Chancellor from the Mayor and Bailiffs of York, stating that, of the four hostages from Paris given to them for safe-keeping, one, William de Essars, died of the plague on 16 June last, and asking that they might be discharged and excused of his keeping. They also inform the Chancellor that another hostage, Matthew de Florie, is gravely ill with the same plague, which is currently raging in those parts.
- Nature of endorsement
- To the most honoured lord, the King's Chancellor.
- Places mentioned
- York
- Paris, [France].
- People mentioned
- Mayor and Bailiffs of York
- Chancellor of England
- William de Essars of Paris
- Matthew de Florie of Paris.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- There are references to burgesses of various French cities as hostages for the performance of the treaty with France in CPR 1361-4 p.25 (licence for various hostages to travel within the realm, dated 5 and 9 June 1361), pp.173-174 (deliverance of various hostages, dated 21 March, 26 April and 1 May 1362) and p.198 (deliverance of another hostage, 14 May 1362). John de Millevill, released on 14 May 1362, is specifically said to have been a hostage for a year, and the two hostages released on 1 May are burgesses of Paris - where they were held is not mentioned, but they may have been the survivors of the group of four mentioned here. Whether they were or not, a date of 1361 seems plausible, especially as it coincided with the second great outbreak of plague in England.
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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/C9518037/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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