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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Lape Germyn, merchant of Florence. Germyn Lape King and council merchant of Florence...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/316/E221
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This record is about the Lape Germyn, merchant of Florence. Germyn Lape King and council merchant of Florence... dating from [1302] 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 8/316/E221
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1302]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Lape Germyn, merchant of Florence.
- Name(s)
- Germyn, Lape
- Addressees
- King and council
- Occupation
- merchant of Florence
- Nature of request
- Germyn requests grace and remedy concerning the duresses that he has suffered from the mayor and sheriff of London who have arrested his cloth for a debt that the merchants of the company of Sene owed to Leycestre, though Germyn is not a member of that company.
- Nature of endorsement
- He should go the Exchequer and let him be heard and justice done to him.
- Places mentioned
- Florence, [Italy]
- London.
- People mentioned
- Mayor and sheriffs of London
- Piers Leycestre, Baron of the Exchequer.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1302 as the petition belongs to an original file of petitions returned to the Exchequer from the summer parliament of 1302. For a confirmation of this dating, see SC 8/314/E107.
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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)
- The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), 1302, summer parliament, appendix, petitions belonging to this parliament and not otherwise recorded, no.2 (summary of this file)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9529273/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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