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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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John Brake, merchant of Almain. Brake John Chancellor. merchant of Almain Brake requests...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/305/15239
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/305/15239
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1340]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John Brake, merchant of Almain.
- Name(s)
- Brake, John
- Addressees
- Chancellor.
- Occupation
- merchant of Almain
- Nature of request
- Brake requests a writ to the purveyors of wool in London to deliver to him 19 sacks of wool which they arrested in the houses of Combmartyn and Cook among the wool of Bathe.
- Nature of endorsement
- Grace should be made to him if he can prove that the wool was purchased before St Mary Magdalene.
- Places mentioned
- Almain (Germany)
- London.
- People mentioned
- Henry Combmartyn
- Laurence Coke (Cook)
- Antelyn Bathe.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition dates to 1340 when an order was issued to de-arrest 19 sacks of wool to be delivered to Brake, in accordance with this petition (CCR 1339-41, p. 584).
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. V, 1339-1341, (Public Record Office, 1901), p.584 (order to de-arrest 19 sacks of wool to be delivered to Brake in accordance with this petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9682451/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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