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Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Piers Bard, bailiff of the town of Sandwich. Bard Piers King and council. Sandwich,...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/334/E1120
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This record is about the Piers Bard, bailiff of the town of Sandwich. Bard Piers King and council. Sandwich,... dating from [c. 1300-c. 1318] 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 8/334/E1120
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1300-c. 1318]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Piers Bard, bailiff of the town of Sandwich.
- Name(s)
- Bard, Piers
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Places mentioned
- Sandwich, [Kent]
- Berwick-upon-Tweed, [Scotland]
- Spain
- Portugal
- France
- Brabant.
- Nature of request
- Bard requests that all those merchants who are able to find sufficient mainprise to go into the realm of France and to Brabant, and not at all to the Scottish enemy nor the enemy the king of France are able to be delivered without having to go to Chancery. By various writs of the chancellor it is commanded that no man should move corn or other victuals out of the land without special grant of the king because they may be taken to the Scottish enemy, and because of this Spanish and Portuguese goods are arrested at Sandwich because they cannot find mainprise, and other ships do not come to the town to the ruin of the town.
- Nature of endorsement
- For the making of this delivery of ships by sufficient mainprise, let two upright men of the same town be assigned by writ of the great seal as is recorded in Chancery.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is speculatively dated to c. 1300-c. 1318 in part on the basis of the hand, and in part in its reference to the Berwick and the Scottish enemy, so that it seems to be before the fall of Berwick in 1318. It seems likely that the petition is of the reign of Edward II, though this cannot be easily proved.
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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/C9683245/
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Series information
SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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