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Mayor, jurats and community of Bordeaux. King. The Mayor, jurats and community of...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/283/14128

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SC 8/283/14128
Date
[? c. 1320-? c. 1350]
Description
Petitioners
Mayor, jurats and community of Bordeaux.
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
The Mayor, jurats and community of Bordeaux make two requests:1) They ask that all trespasses, crimes, disobediences and forfeitures against them, or against any individual from Bordeaux, that might belong in any way to the king or to his proctor, by reason of arrest, plaint, dissension, sentence or process of the king's ministers, between the people of the Agenais, Quercy and Albigeois on the one hand, and the Mayor, jurats and community of Bordeaux, or any individual from Bordeaux, on the other, might be heard in the king's court.2) They ask that all manner of markets and faults [r: fairs?] granted against them in the last three years might be repealed, as these grants were made without calling them or their proctor.
Nature of endorsement
To be shown to the king, for him to speak his will on it.
Places mentioned
Bordeaux, [Guyenne, France]
Agenais, [Guyenne, France]
Carsin (Quercy), [France]
Albigeois [Languedoc, France].
Note
Tentatively dated according to the hand and language. Like many of the petitions in this file, it is probably from the early years of the reign of Edward III.
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/C9682239/

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