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Details of SC 8/173/8635
Reference: SC 8/173/8635
Description:
Petitioners: Thomas Chaucer, butler of England.
Name(s): Chaucer, Thomas
Addressees: King and council.
Occupation: butler of England
Nature of request: Chaucer requests that a remedy is ordained so that the king is answered of his prises of wine in the port of Bristol as it is in all other ports in England, or that letters of the privy seal or writs of Chancery be directed to the burgesses and merchants of Bristol to come and show why they should not answer for the prises in this manner, and if judgment is given against them that they pay the prises.
Nature of endorsement: [None].
Places mentioned: Bristol.
Note: The petition dates to 1408 as a commission was issued to the petitioner to collect the wine on 2 March 1408 (CPR 1405-8, p.387).
Date: [1408]
Related material:

For another contemporary petition by the same petitioner on a related matter, see SC 8/173/8650
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen IV, vol. III, 1405-1408, (Public Record Office, 1907), p.387 (commission to the petitioner to take the wine in Bristol)

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