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Bernard des Camps. Camps Bernard King and council. [Petition in two parts:]1) Camps...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/338/E1216B

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Reference
SC 8/338/E1216B
Date
[c. 1302]
Description
Petitioners
Bernard des Camps.
Name(s)
Camps, Bernard
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
[Petition in two parts:]1) Camps states that he has resided in England for a long time to render his account of cloth that was given to the gentle ladies of Gascony by the king's command, and of £10 sterling that he received by the hand of Droxford, Sandale and Cambridge to transport the cloth from Southampton to Bayonne and from there to Bourg and Blaye. He requests that his account is received.2) He states that he took wheat and oats from the sheriff of Somerset and Dorset by the command of the king and Droxford to transport it from there to Peyrehorade and Sorde.1)
Nature of endorsement
For Bernard de Camps.2) Let it be ordered to Droxford that he should hear his account and he should do justice to him.
Places mentioned
Gascony, [France]
Southampton, [Hampton]
Bayonne, [Gascony, France]
Bourg, [Guyenne, France]
Blaye, [Guyenne, France]
Peyrehorade, [Gascony, France]
Sorde-l'Abbaye, [Gascony, France].
People mentioned
John de Drokenesford (Droxford)
John de Sandale
John de Cantebr' (Cambridge)
John de la Lee, sheriff of Somerset and Dorset.
Note
The petition is dated to c. 1302 on the basis of the reference to John de la Lee, sheriff of Somerset and Dorset, whose term of office ran from October 1301 to October 1302 (List of Sheriffs, p. 122).
Related material

For another petition by the same petitioner possibly enclosed with this petition, see SC 8/338/E1216A

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Diplomatic Documents 1542.
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9683345/

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