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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Fortaner de Lescun. de Lescun Fortaner King and council. Fortaner de Lescun states...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/288/14360
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This record is about the Fortaner de Lescun. de Lescun Fortaner King and council. Fortaner de Lescun states... dating from [c. 1342] 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 8/288/14360
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1342]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Fortaner de Lescun.
- Name(s)
- de Lescun, Fortaner
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Fortaner de Lescun states that when John Darcy the kinsman was in Gascony with a commission to retain men for the king's service, he retained Fortaner with 50 men-at-arms and 500 foot sergeants, at a fee of £100 sterling annually for term of life, for which he has letters, sealed with the seals of John Darcy and the Constable and confirmed by the king in Brabant; but he has never received any of this money. He asks that all his arrears might be paid here, as there is no money to pay him overseas, and he has served in the Gascon wars at his own cost.
- Nature of endorsement
- [On face] The Constable is to be written to.[None on dorse]
- Places mentioned
- Gascony, [France]
- Brabant.
- People mentioned
- John Darcy 'the kinsman' ('le cosyn').
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated to c. 1342 with reference to SC 8/247/12348 and SC 8/289/14415. The petitioner is mentioned in CCR 1341-3 p.587, dated 24 September 1342, which seems perhaps to be a later response to SC 8/247/12348.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a transcript, see p.177 of PRO 31/7/135
For a related petition, see SC 8/289/14415
For a related petition from the same petitioner, see SC 8/247/12348
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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/C9735520/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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