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John de County, merchant of Amiens. de County John King and council. merchant of...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/286/14251

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SC 8/286/14251
Date
[c. 1301]
Description
Petitioners
John de County, merchant of Amiens.
Name(s)
de County, John
Addressees
King and council.
Occupation
merchant of Amiens
Nature of request
John de County, merchant of Amiens, states that he has always lived in the king's peace and fealty, and that he bought 51 hides in Newcastle upon Tyne, according to law merchant, but that on the Wednesday before mid-Lent, in the king's twenty-ninth year, John Lescote, Chief Bailiff of Newcastle upon Tyne, with Thomas de Frisemareys and other Under-bailiffs, seized those hides and still withhold them, on the pretext that they were forfeit because he had not bought a hundred; although he and other merchants had bought them in this way before, as he is prepared to aver. He requests grace and a remedy.
Nature of endorsement
He is to have a writ of Chancery to have those named in the petition come before the barons of the Exchequer three weeks after Easter, to answer concerning the trespasses contained here. And the writ is to be returnable before them on the same day.
Places mentioned
Amiens, [Picardy, France]
Newcastle upon Tyne, [Northumberland].
People mentioned
John Lescote (Scot), Chief Bailiff of Newcastle upon Tyne
Thomas de Frisemareys, Under-bailiff of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Note
CPR 1292-1301 p.630 is dated 6 July 1301, which accords with the mention of the Wednesday before mid-Lent 29 Edward I (1301). It mentions especially the confiscation of the petitioner's 52 (sic) hides, but also complaints from a number of merchants of Amiens that they have been harassed in this way for two years and more. The endorsement of this petition summons the bailiffs for three weeks after Easter: it would seem either to date from shortly after the hides were confiscated in 1301, or from a year (or more) later.
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. III, 1292-1301, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.630 (commission of oyer et terminer on this complaint)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9682363/

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