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Alan de Thornton, son of Gilbert de Thornton. de Thornton Alan King and council....

Catalogue reference: SC 8/321/E493

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This record is about the Alan de Thornton, son of Gilbert de Thornton. de Thornton Alan King and council.... dating from [c. 1305] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/321/E493
Date
[c. 1305]
Description
Petitioners
Alan de Thornton, son of Gilbert de Thornton.
Name(s)
de Thornton, Alan
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Thornton requests remedy and that he be granted recovery of his debt as he paid a sum to Guy to be repaid at London at the feast of the Purification of Our Lady next or in 1260 little florins of gold in the court of Rome within the same Purification but has received little of this and cannot make recovery as the company has been expelled from the realm.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Boston, [Lincolnshire]
Florence, [Italy]
London
Rome, [Italy].
People mentioned
Guyot Guy, merchant of the company of Peruchi of Florence.
Note
The petition is dated to c. 1305 as the petition refers to the money being paid in 33 [Edw. I] and the sum being due for payment in the feast of the Purification of Our Lady next, which in all likelihood refers to February 1306, the petition dating to some time after this but still within Edward I's reign.
Related material

For another petition by creditors of the same company, see SC 8/323/E559

For a petition by the merchants of the same company, see SC 8/66/3297

For another petition by the creditors of the same company, see SC 8/79/3936

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. IV, 1301-1307, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.412 (appointment of William de Rolleston to arrest certain members of this company and another, many members of the company having withdrawn from the country with all their goods in secret)
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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9529545/

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