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Nicholas Russel (Russell), merchant of Florence. Russel (Russell) Nicholas Lord Latimer....

Catalogue reference: SC 8/298/14881

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This record is about the Nicholas Russel (Russell), merchant of Florence. Russel (Russell) Nicholas Lord Latimer.... dating from [? 1369-? 1375] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/298/14881
Date
[? 1369-? 1375]
Description
Petitioners
Nicholas Russel (Russell), merchant of Florence.
Name(s)
Russel (Russell), Nicholas
Addressees
Lord Latimer.
Occupation
merchant of Florence
Nature of request
Nicholas Russel states that several companions of his, merchants of Florence living at Bruges, bought a ship in Flanders and sent it with wheat from Zealand to Bordeaux, where the wheat was sold by Andrew de Nodde, the merchants' attorney on the ship, who loaded the ship with salt, iron and other merchandise for Bristol. At Bristol Andrew became ill, and in his illness went mad, fell through the window of a house on the bridge, and died. Because of this the King's ministers have seized the ship and its contents. He asks Lord Latimer to write to the council and to his son[-in-law], Lord Nevill, or to the ministers of Bristol, for the release of the ship and its merchandise.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Florence, [Italy]
Bruges, [Belgium]
Flanders
Zealand
Bordeaux, [Guyenne, France]
Bristol.
People mentioned
[William le Latimer], Lord Latimer, [Chamberlain of England]
Andrew de Nodde, attorney of merchants of Florence
[John de Nevill (Neville)] Lord Nevill [of Raby].
Note
Dated to 1369 or to 1375, with reference to SC 8/298/14882.
Related material

For a letter with which this petition was formerly enclosed, see SC 8/298/14882

For the petition formerly enclosed with this letter, see SC 8/298/14880

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
The King's Council in England during the Middle Ages, J.F. Baldwin, (, 1913), pp.284-5 (discussion of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9518084/

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