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Merchants of Gascony. King and council. The merchants of Gascony state that the king...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/292/14577

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Reference
SC 8/292/14577
Date
[? 1305]
Description
Petitioners
Merchants of Gascony.
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
The merchants of Gascony state that the king owes them various debts for sums owed to people in the king's service in the war in Gascony, for which they have letters from the Earl of Lincoln and other captains. They ask that the king might have consideration for their long wait for payment, and arrange for them to be paid swiftly, as they have been greatly impoverished by these loans.
Nature of endorsement
The letters are to be examined by John de Sandale and Thomas de Cantebr', and kept by them to deliver to the Treasury; and they will have other letters under the great seal to be paid by the Constable of Bordeaux from the issues of the land of Gascony; and the said John is charged, on behalf of the king, with telling the Chancellor to have such letters as are ordained by the king and council in the aforesaid form made.
Places mentioned
Gascony, [France].
People mentioned
[Henry de Lacy], Earl of Lincoln, King's lieutenant in Gascony
John de Sandale
Thomas de Cantebr[ugge] (Cambridge).
Note
A note at the beginning of SC 8/291, signed R. L. Atkinson and dated 9 March 1932, states, 'Nos 14511-50 and 14551-80 in the next file appear to form an original file, or at any rate a conjunction of some duration. Such as can be dated appear to belong to the year 1305, or thereabouts, so the remainder may provisionally be regarded as belonging to this date'. This petition is therefore given a tentative date of 1305. From the endorsement, it is clearly contemporary with SC 8/292/14570 and SC 8/292/14573.
Related material

For a related petition, see SC 8/292/14570

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/C9735739/

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