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Manent Fraunceis (Francisci), merchant. Fraunceis (Francisci) Manent King and council....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/290/14494
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This record is about the Manent Fraunceis (Francisci), merchant. Fraunceis (Francisci) Manent King and council.... dating from 1327 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 8/290/14494
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1327
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Manent Fraunceis (Francisci), merchant.
- Name(s)
- Fraunceis (Francisci), Manent
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Occupation
- merchant
- Nature of request
- Manent Fraunceis states that the king's father, in the fifteenth year of his reign, sent him to France to buy wheat for Scotland; which he did, despite difficulties in obtaining permission from the King of France to ship it, and despite losing some to Flemish piracy. He was given some payment and the King often ordered that he should be paid in full, but, through greed, Hugh le Despenser always prevented this. He requests payment, with reimbursement of his wages and compensation for his losses, so that he might not be destroyed by his good service.
- Nature of endorsement
- The Treasurer, Barons of the Exchequer, and Chamberlains are to be ordered by writ that, when they have seen the petition, the indenture and the payments, and the other things touching this business, they are to have payments made for what can reasonably be found to be due to him, both for expenses and loss of corn and for other things, by reason of the said purveyance.The King to the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer and to his Chamberlains, greetings. We send you a certain petition shown before us and our council on behalf of Manent Fraunceis, merchant, enclosed with the present, ordering you that, when you have seen the petition, the indenture mentioned by that petition, and the payments and all other things touching that business, you are to have due payment made to the same Manent for what is found to be reasonably due to him by reason of that purveyance, both for expenses and for loss of corn and all other things. Witness myself at Westminster, 8 March, in the first year of our reign.
- Places mentioned
- France
- Scotland
- Flanders
- Dover, [Kent]
- Newcastle upon Tyne, [Northumberland]
- Westminster.
- People mentioned
- [Edward II], King of England
- [Philip V], King of France
- Walter de Norwiz (Norwich)
- Hugh le Despenser.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Endorsement dated 8 March, 1 Edward III (1327).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For duplicate of SC 8/211/10541, see SC 8/261/13047
For a transcript, see pp.131-135 of PRO 31/7/128
For another petition from the same petitioner see SC 8/211/10541
For three subsequent writs sent to the Exchequer on this matter, see SC 8/290/14495
For a related petition see SC 8/293/14649
For a related document see SC 8/211/10540
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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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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Calendar of Memoranda Rolls (Exchequer), Michaelmas 1326-Michaelmas 1327, (Public Record Office, 1968), no.543 (enrolment of the writ on the dorse of this petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9735656/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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