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Selef (Siglaf) Susse, burgess and merchant of Lynn. Susse Selef (Siglaf) King and...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/327/E860

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Reference
SC 8/327/E860
Date
[c. 1300-c. 1325]
Description
Petitioners
Selef (Siglaf) Susse, burgess and merchant of Lynn.
Name(s)
Susse, Selef (Siglaf)
Addressees
King and council.
Occupation
merchant of Lynn
Nature of request
Susse states that he has been made to come into Chancery at the suit of Novelecourt and Sonderman by writ returned fifteen days earlier and the suit is adjouned from day to day without further pleading. He requests that the challenges be viewed and it be ordained how Susse is able in a certain manner to be delivered.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
King's Lynn, [Norfolk]
Alemaygne (Germany).
People mentioned
Hildebrand de la Novelecourt, merchant of Germany
Hildebrand Sonderman, merchant of Germany.
Note
The petition is speculatively dated to c. 1300-c. 1325 on the basis of the hand.
Related material

For another petition by the same petitioner on a different matter, see SC 8/74/3662

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/C9682855/

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