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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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John de Briggewater, comptroller of wool in Somerset and Dorset. de Briggewater John...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/306/15270
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This record is about the John de Briggewater, comptroller of wool in Somerset and Dorset. de Briggewater John... dating from [c. 1339] 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 8/306/15270
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1339]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John de Briggewater, comptroller of wool in Somerset and Dorset.
- Name(s)
- de Briggewater, John
- Addressees
- Chancellor.
- Occupation
- comptroller of wool in Somerset and Dorset
- Nature of request
- Briggewater requests advice and that the King be informed that most of his wool still needs to be collected because some wool from Somerset was so great that the receivers did not want to accept it without the court's advice and the people of the region were unwilling to give other wool, and in Dorset the purveyors of wool will not allow him to counter-roll the minor receipts of wool from the people of the region.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Somerset
- Dorset.
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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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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. IV, 1338-1340, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.360 (oyer and terminer into Briggewater's imprisonment while in the King's service)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9518324/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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