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Jacques de la Pire, burgess of St-Omer, William (Guillaume) de Langardin, and other...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/286/14270

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SC 8/286/14270
Date
[1305]
Description
Petitioners
Jacques de la Pire, burgess of St-Omer, William (Guillaume) de Langardin, and other burgesses of St-Omer.
Name(s)
Pire; de Langardin, Jacques; William (Guillaume)
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Jacques de la Pire, burgess of St-Omer, William de Langardin, and other burgesses of St-Omer, state that they loaded a ship of Aberdeen in Perth and Dundee with wools, hides and other goods to be taken to St-Omer, paying all due tolls and customs, but that around last Christmas their goods, together with other goods in buildings in Perth, were arrested by the king's ministers, although they were under the king's protection at the time. They request grace and a remedy, for themselves and for other merchants of St-Omer, and that their right to justice under their protection might be upheld.
Nature of endorsement
Scotland.Coram rege.The king wills and has ordered his Chancellor to deliver all goods belonging to merchants of St-Omer, Arras, and Abbeville, arrested in England and Scotland, provided that they first find sufficient security to answer to the lord king at the king's pleasure for the value of the aforesaid goods.
Places mentioned
St-Omer, [Picardy, France]
Perth, [Perthshire], Scotland
Dundee, [Angus], Scotland
Aberdeen, [Aberdeenshire], Scotland
Arras, [Picardy, France]
Abbeville, [Picardy, France].
Note
The endorsement of this petition is enrolled on a roll from the Lent parliament of 1305 (PROME roll 12, introduction). CCR 1302-7 p.255 is dated 5 April 1305 and p.274 is dated 23 June 1305.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw I, vol. V, 1302-1307, (Public Record Office, 1908), p.255 (order to release the goods of some other merchants of these towns) & p.274 (order to release the goods of merchants of Amiens)
  • Memoranda de Parliamento, or Records of the Parliament holden at Westminster, 25 Edw I, Ed. F.W. Maitland, (Rolls Series, vol. XCVIII, 1893), p.104, no.176 (full eiditon of original petition and of enrolment of response on parliament roll)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.165b (enrolment of response to petition on parliament roll)
  • 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), roll 12, appendix, no.182 (full edition and translation of original petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9682382/

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