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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Robert le Bret. Bret Robert King and council. Bret shows that after the arrest of...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/324/E666
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/324/E666
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1311]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Robert le Bret.
- Name(s)
- Bret, Robert
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Bret shows that after the arrest of the merchants and goods of the house of Frescobaldi, one of that company purchased his delivery from prison and managed to obtain goods and writings from their house and deliver it to the house of the company of the Portinari and the Peruzzi, and subsequently left the country in such a hurry that he left the writings, but they came into the hand of his valet, and the company of the Peruzzi eventually after violence and having him imprisoned forced him to return home. Monte Lupe returned when he heard there was a parliament to report this to the king, but the Peruzzi secured that he was arrested and imprisoned in the Tower where he remains though he has done nothing wrong, and this being in contempt of the king in a great sum of money.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- London
- River Thames
- Newgate Prison, London.
- People mentioned
- Merchants of the Frescobaldi
- Merchants of the company of the Portinari
- Merchants of the company of the Peruzzi
- Lapyn de la Broune
- Campane de Monte Lupe, valet of Lapyn de la Vroune.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to c. 1311 as it is clearly soon after the expulsion of the Frescobaldi Company by the Ordainers.
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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/C9682660/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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