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Arnold de Lescusers, merchant of Gascony; Menaud Sausaver, merchant of Gascony; Gaillard...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/317/E285

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This record is about the Arnold de Lescusers, merchant of Gascony; Menaud Sausaver, merchant of Gascony; Gaillard... dating from [? 1318] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/317/E285
Date
[? 1318]
Description
Petitioners
Arnold de Lescusers, merchant of Gascony; Menaud Sausaver, merchant of Gascony; Gaillard de Sessouns, merchant of Gascony.
Name(s)
de Lescusers; Sausaver; de Sessouns, Arnold; Menaud; Gaillard
Addressees
King and council.
Occupation
merchant of Gascony
Nature of request
The merchants request payment for the wine taken from them by Say and Waldeschef for the king's use as they are greatly impoverished.
Nature of endorsement
Coram rege et magno consilio.
Places mentioned
Gascony, [France].
People mentioned
Henry de Say, [butler of the king]
Walter de Waldeschef, [butler of the king].
Note
The petition is dated to? 1318 in accordance with the dating given on the guard which is based on the dating of SC 8/317/E284, a petition on the same matter which includes some of the same petitioners and appears to be in a very similar if not identical hand.
Related material

For another apparently contemporary petition on the same matter by another merchant of Gascony, see SC 8/317/E286

For another petition including these petitioners and other Gascon merchants, see SC 8/317/E284

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9529337/

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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions

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