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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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William del Espeye, burgess of Damme in Flanders. Espeye William King and council....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/324/E608
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This record is about the William del Espeye, burgess of Damme in Flanders. Espeye William King and council.... dating from [? 1293-? 1297] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/324/E608
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? 1293-? 1297]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- William del Espeye, burgess of Damme in Flanders.
- Name(s)
- Espeye, William
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- [The petition is badly faded in its upper portions, so that the full details are not recoverable].Espeye states that he charged a ship with cloth and other merchandise and [...] and the people were disseised of all their goods and taken and imprisoned in Lincoln castle where 8 of them died of hunger and sickness by the default of Brincle, and when they were delivered by command of the king, their goods were not, and as it is customary in England that their goods are delivered with their bodies, Espeye requests their delivery.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let a writ be sent to the sheriff of Lincoln that he make to come Robert le Veneour and Richard de Becles.
- Places mentioned
- Dam (Damme), [Belgium]
- Flanders
- Wainfleet, [Lincolnshire]
- Lincoln, [Lincolnshire].
- People mentioned
- Richard de Brincle, undersheriff of Lincoln
- John Bek (Beck)
- Robert le Veneour
- Richard de Becles.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to? 1293-? 1297 as the reference to Robert le Veneour in a Lincolnshire context would seem to be a reference to his tenure of the office of sheriff of that county from 1293-7 [List of Sheriffs, p.78].
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9682597/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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