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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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SC 8/316/E221
Date
[1302]
Description
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.
Note
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.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
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)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9529273/

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