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? No Petitioner named Letter of testimonial, dated the Thursday after St Bartholomew...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/290/14496

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Reference
SC 8/290/14496
Date
1299
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Letter of testimonial, dated the Thursday after St Bartholomew 1299, from Raymond Durand de Vylle, Mayor of Bayonne, enclosing another letter, dated 16 November 1296, in which John de Barau and Bernard du Gayllard of Biarritz testify that they were in Bermeo fifteen days before the previous All Saints, when William Arnold de Bergeis presented a letter to the aldermen there from the community of Bayonne, asking them to order Nicholas Peridz to return a ship charged with corn stolen by him from William Arnold, and to do justice, and that, when Nicholas refused to do justice, the aldermen said that they could do nothing further.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Bayonne, [Gascony, France]
Biarritz, [Gascony, France]
Bermeo, [Spain].
People mentioned
Raymond Durand (Ramon Durant) de Vylle (Ville), Mayor of Bayonne
Ademari (Amaury) de Castet, public notary of Bayonne
John (Joan) de Barau (Barrau) of Biarritz
Bernard (Bernat) du Gayllard (Gaillard) of Biarritz
William Arnold (Guilhem Arnaut) de Bergeis
John (Joan) de Putz, lieutenant of the Mayor of Bayonne
aldermen (alcaldes) of Bermeo
Nicholas (Nicolas) Peridz (Perez), burgess and vicomte of Bermeo
Edward [I], King of England and Duke of Guyenne
Dominjon (Dominic) de Maugs, Bishop [of Bayonne]
Pascal de Vile, Mayor [of Bayonne]
Peter (Pey) de la Vygne (Vigne).
Note
Letter dated the Thursday after St Bartholomew, 1299 (27 August 1299), enclosing another letter dated 16 November 1296, and mentioning events that took place at the previous All Saints.
Related material

For the petition to which these letters relate, see SC 8/290/14497

For a transcript, see pp.144-145 of PRO 31/7/93

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9735658/

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