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Proctor of the town of Sorde-l'Abbaye. King and council. Proctor of the town of Sorde-l'Abbaye...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/291/14523

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Reference
SC 8/291/14523
Date
[? 1305]
Description
Petitioners
Proctor of the town of Sorde-l'Abbaye.
Addressees
King and council.
Occupation
Proctor of the town of Sorde-l'Abbaye
Nature of request
The proctor of the town of Sorde-l'Abbaye states that the people of Sorde have always served the king loyally during the war with the king of France, and are still ready to serve him with all that they have. But John de Hastynges, Seneschal of Gascony, is arresting the boats that they have always had, carrying merchandise between Bayonne and Sorde, and forcing them to unload at the bastide of Hastingues, and has ordered the bailli of Hastingues not to allow any boat or merchandise to pass Hastingues going towards Sorde. The proctor asks the king to ordain and command that these boats can carry merchandise between Bayonne and Sorde as they used to, and that he might uphold and maintain them in the estate in which he and his ancestors kept them before the building of the bastide.
Nature of endorsement
The Seneschal is to be ordered to do justice to them according to the customs of the country.
Places mentioned
Sorde-l'Abbaye, [Gascony, France]
France
Bayonne, [Gascony, France]
Hastingues, [Gascony, France].
People mentioned
[Philip IV], King of France
John de Hastynges (Hastings), Seneschal of Gascony
Abbot of Sorde-l'Abbaye.
Note
John de Hastings was Seneschal of Gascony between August 1302 and August 1304, and between February 1310 and January 1312. This petition, like the others in this file, probably comes from 1305, just after the end of his first period of office.Malcolm Vale discusses this petition on p.157 of The Angevin Legacy and the Hundred Years War, 1250-1340 (Oxford 1990), where he refers to it as SC 8/291/14522.
Related material

For another petition by the same petitioner, see SC 8/338/E1222

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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/C9735685/

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