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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Geoffrey Seguyn, merchant of Bordeaux. Seguyn Geoffrey King and council. merchant...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/317/E253
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/317/E253
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1305]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Geoffrey Seguyn, merchant of Bordeaux.
- Name(s)
- Seguyn, Geoffrey
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Occupation
- merchant of Bordeaux
- Nature of request
- Seguyn requests that he is paid the sum of money that he is owed for wine taken for the king's use, as he has long sued for it and has served the king in his war without wages. Columbiers took wine from Seguyn's valet at Sandwich in the 22nd year of the reign and at the parliament of York Seguyn was told to go to London where he would be answered for his pay.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Sandwich, [Kent]
- York
- London.
- People mentioned
- Matthew de Columbiers, late butler of the king
- William Aguillon, valet of Geoffrey Seguyn, merchant of Bordeaux.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1305 as this and other petitions has been ascribed to the Lent parliament of 1305 by Maitland (Memoranda de Parliamento, p.321, and no.5, p.323).
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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)
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- Memoranda de Parliamento, or Records of the Parliament holden at Westminster, 25 Edw I, Ed. F.W. Maitland, (Rolls Series, vol. XCVIII, 1893), No.5, p.323 (full edition of petition)
- 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), 1305, Lent parliament, appendix, Gascon petitions belonging to this parliament and not otherwise recorded (note relating to this petition and referencing Memoranda de Parliamento)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9529305/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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