Piece
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Merchants? of London. Merchants? of London [This petition is fragmentary] . . . in...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/340/16032
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This record is about the Merchants? of London. Merchants? of London [This petition is fragmentary] . . . in... dating from [? c. 1470-? c. 1510] 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 8/340/16032
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? c. 1470-? c. 1510]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Merchants? of London.
- Occupation
- Merchants? of London
- Nature of request
- [This petition is fragmentary] . . . in your city of London that among other privileges granted to them by your noble progenitors . . . for any debt for which they are not a pledge or the principal debtor, nor for any trespass done or to be done by . . . notwithstanding which, now of late George Lamte, one of the said fellowship, coming with merchandise from beyond the . . . Simon Baxter and others of Lynn, and within an hour after the arrest at a court of piepowder as it is said . . . fellowship nor friends may speak with him . . . but, as it is said, it is claimed by the same Baxter and the rest that . . . cause of arrest of a ship there last August, that belonged to the said Baxter and others of Lynn, and . . . done to him and his subjects . . . was said there, of the which arrest the said George and his . . . said ship to have been disarrested and . . . was bound and became pledge for half a ship . . . merchandise to the . . . the said Baxter does to be kept there . . . under your great seal of . . . to the bailiff of the liberty of the . . . of Lynn . . . the body of the . . . and process made against him in that part . . . pain . . . and . . . February to answer to the aforesaid . . . town . . . the merchants . . . with their merchandise which . . . to be . . . liberties granted to them by your . . .
- Nature of endorsement
- [An illegible note at the foot of the face; none on dorse]
- Places mentioned
- London
- King's Lynn, [Norfolk].
- People mentioned
- George Lamte
- Simon Baxter of King's Lynn.
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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)
- English
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9736513/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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