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People of Portsmouth. King and council. The people request remedy as a ship of Bayonne...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/313/E49

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This record is about the People of Portsmouth. King and council. The people request remedy as a ship of Bayonne... dating from [1299-1302] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/313/E49
Date
[1299-1302]
Description
Petitioners
People of Portsmouth.
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
The people request remedy as a ship of Bayonne was attached at Portsmouth at the suit of the merchants of France and the master and companions purchased a writ to release them at mainprise, and subsequently they failed to appear before Mauduit and the mainpernors were taken to the Tower. The sheriff of Hampshire was ordered to enquire of the names of those who had bought goods from the merchants and to levy a large sum from them and the commonalty though they were not mainpernors or pledges and the merchants had a licence to sell.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Portsmouth, [Hampshire]
Bayonne, [Gascony, France]
France]
Tower of London, [London].
People mentioned
Merchants of France
Ralph de Maudwite (Mauduit).
Note
The petition is dated to 1299-1302 on the basis of the suggested dating given on the guard though the petition must be later than the writ with which it was formerly enclosed (SC 8/313/E50 dating to 18 June 1299), and a later stage in this matter is clearly recorded in the close rolls dating to 17 August 1302 (CCR 1296-1302, pp.550-1). As most of the petitions in this file probably date to 1302, a later date in this range is highly probable.
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For a writ formerly enclosed with this petition, see SC 8/313/E50

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw I, vol. IV, 1296-1302, (Public Record Office, 1906), pp.550-2 (subsequent record of the attempted payment by Reinald Capaeu of Bayonne of the sum he owed to the commonalty of Portsmouth who had satisfied the men of France)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9529100/

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