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Thomas de Laugar of Bayonne, citizen of London, proctor and attorney of various people...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/289/14406

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Reference
SC 8/289/14406
Date
[c. 1315]
Description
Petitioners
Thomas de Laugar of Bayonne, citizen of London, proctor and attorney of various people of Gascony.
Name(s)
de Laugar, Thomas
Addressees
King and council.
Occupation
proctor & attorney of various people of Gascony
Nature of request
Thomas de Laugar states that the king's father owed several sums of money by various letters patent to various people of Gascony, of whom he is the proctor and attorney, and that, although the king has often ordered the Constables of Bordeaux and their lieutenants to pay him, nothing has been done. He has become impoverished by his long suit, so that he has pledged part of these letters to continue with it, and the others are in the Exchequer, mixed with the letters of Hugh Huguelyn; and he can have no recovery of them without the king's aid. He requests an assignment in England, where he has a wife and children, where he can shortly recover his payment, and be relieved of his poor estate.
Nature of endorsement
He is to show the letters by which he claims that the lord king is indebted to these creditors.
Places mentioned
Bayonne, [Gascony, France]
London
Gascony, [France].
People mentioned
[Edward I], King of England
Hugh (Hugues) Huguelyn (Hugelin).
Note
A copy of the related SC 8/289/14402 is enrolled on a roll of business from the parliament of January 1315 (Rot. Parl. vol. I pp.309b-310a (no.87)). This petition would seem to date from around the same time, or perhaps slightly earlier. Gascon Rolls 1307-17 no.326 is dated 3 October 1309, and would seem to be from an earlier stage in the petitioner's suit.
Related material

For a transcript, see p.123 of PRO 31/7/135

For a related petition from the same petitioner, see SC 8/289/14402

For a petition from a Thomas de Laugar and others, see SC 8/287/14311

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Gascon Rolls 1307-1317, ed. Y. Renaud, (Public Record Office, 1962), no.326 (instructions to pay the petitioner)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.309b-310a (no.87) (enrolment of related petition on parliament roll)
Record URL
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