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Steven de Blakeney. de Blakeney Steven King and council. Blakeney requests delivery...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/326/E777

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This record is about the Steven de Blakeney. de Blakeney Steven King and council. Blakeney requests delivery... dating from [1299-1301] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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SC 8/326/E777
Date
[1299-1301]
Description
Petitioners
Steven de Blakeney.
Name(s)
de Blakeney, Steven
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Blakeney requests delivery of his cloth that he gave to Despenser at the fair of Boston to take with his cloth to the fair of St Giles, Winchester, as Despenser and the cloth were arrested by Clyvesby and Nesham at the complaint of certain strangers for debt that Despenser owed them. Despite challenges by the mayor of London, and the averment that the cloths belong to the petitioner's own chattels, they refuse [to deliver them].
Nature of endorsement
He should obtain justice for himself by the common law if he considers it to be expedient.
Places mentioned
Boston, [Lincolnshire]
Winchester, [Hampshire]
London.
People mentioned
John le Despenser
Hasculf de Clyvesby, bailiff of the Earl of Richmond
William de Nesham, bailiff of the Earl of Richmond
Ellis Russel, mayor of London.
Note
The petition is dated to 1299-1301 as Ellis Russel's term as mayor of London endured for these years.
Related material

For the badly damaged duplicate of this petition with a slightly different response, see SC 8/326/E785

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9682772/

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