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Not specified King and council. The petition asks that those who are charged with...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/295/14725

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This record is about the Not specified King and council. The petition asks that those who are charged with... dating from [c. 1328-c. 1337] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/295/14725
Date
[c. 1328-c. 1337]
Description
Petitioners
Not specified
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
The petition asks that those who are charged with the business mentioned below are advised on the points listed here before their going.1) To continue the request previously made to the King of France concerning the annulment or repeal of the defaults in which the King was put in the [parlements] of the King of France, and concerning clarification of persons and causes and other necessary circumstances, so that profitable letters may be purchased for the King.2) The cases pending against the King in the court of France, in which the King is put in default, are so hopeless, that all advocates who have knowledge of the custom of the said court are unanimous in refusing to take them on.3) Or in arbitration before commissaries chosen on the one side and the other according to the form of the peace and accords made between the ancestors of the King and the ancestors of the King of France, which the two kings have promised to uphold.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
France.
People mentioned
[Philip VI], King of France.
Note
Dated on the basis of the hand and the content.
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/C9735890/

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