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? No Petitioner named King. [The letter is difficult to follow and it is not clear...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/346/E1424

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Reference
SC 8/346/E1424
Date
[1298]
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
[The letter is difficult to follow and it is not clear whether it is from Courtrai and his fellow merchants concerning the seizure of their goods on a ship of Spain, or from another unnamed individual addressed to them telling them to come to Portsmouth to freight their goods from there].The letter states that their goods were on a ship of Spain that was taken by Gascons, they intending to go to Portsmouth and then to Calais and Damme and requesting others to come and freight the goods. It also refers to the taking of another ship of Gonsalvo.
Nature of endorsement
[None, except a contemporary doodle].
Places mentioned
Bruges, [Belgium]
St Maheu (St Mathieu), [Brittany, France]
Bayonne, [Gascony, France]
Spain
Portsmouth, [Hampshire]
Valenciennes, [France]
Calais, [France]
Dam (Damme), [Belgium]
Southampton, [Hampshire]
La Rochelle, [Poitou, France].
People mentioned
John de Contray (Courtrai), burgess of Bruges
Simon Dautike (Dartrike)
Bauglin de la Walle
John de la Serre (Sarreu)
John Wellebru (Woelbru)
Cobin Pait Kopne
Chanderus (Sandras) [de Dours] of Valenciennes
Ernaut (Arnold, Arnaud) de Ginstele (Ghiscele)
Domigeron de la Vigne
Pierre Ernaut of Maurie
John de Lospital of Bayonne
Martin Gonsalvo.
Note
The petition is dated to 1298 with the letter with which it was formerly enclosed (SC 8/346/E1423).
Related material

For another letter with which this petition was apparently originally enclosed, see SC 8/346/E1429

For a letter of Edward I with which this petition was formerly enclosed, see SC 8/346/E1423

For a schedule formerly enclosed with this petition, see SC 8/346/E1425A

For a petition/schedule formerly enclosed with this petition, see SC 8/346/E1427

For another related letter of Edward I enclosed with this petition, see SC 8/346/E1426

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
E143/4/5 (added 28/01/1984).
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9736848/

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