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Guillaume de Pierres, burgess of Blaye. de Pierres Guillaume King and council. Pierres...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/317/E258

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Reference
SC 8/317/E258
Date
[1305]
Description
Petitioners
Guillaume de Pierres, burgess of Blaye.
Name(s)
de Pierres, Guillaume
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Pierres requests that he is able to be paid for the debt for the wine which he had at Bristol taken from him by the sheriff of Gloucester for the king's use. He has served the king in his Gascon war and lost houses and inheritances by reason of the war without taking wages or goods of the king.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Blaye, [Guyenne, France]
Bristol.
People mentioned
Sheriff of Gloucestershire.
Note
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.10, pp.325-6).
Related material

For another petition from the same petitioner, see SC 8/292/14572

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Memoranda de Parliamento, or Records of the Parliament holden at Westminster, 25 Edw I, Ed. F.W. Maitland, (Rolls Series, vol. XCVIII, 1893), No.10, pp.325-6 (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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