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Henry Holand, Duke of Exeter. Holand, Duke of Exeter Henry King. Henry, Duke of Exeter...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/46/2278

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Reference
SC 8/46/2278
Date
[c. 1450]
Description
Petitioners
Henry Holand, Duke of Exeter.
Name(s)
Holand, Duke of Exeter, Henry
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Henry, Duke of Exeter states that when two merchants of Armagnac, Piers Boleston and Piers Chesteyne, who had travelled from Bordeaux during the truce with the petitioner's servant, Thomas Ayton, to bring him certain payments due to his father, arrived in England, they were seized as prisoners by Hugh Payn, in the petitioner's name, and delivered to Thomas Ayton; and then afterwards in his absence they were again seized by John Payn and Thomas Payn, by whom they are being held in prison with their goods and merchandise. He requests their release.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Armagnac, [France]
Bordeaux, [Guyenne, France]
Hampton (Southampton), [Hampshire].
People mentioned
Piers (Peter, Pey) Boleston, merchant of Armagnac
Piers (Peter, Pey) Chesteyne, merchant of Armagnac
Thomas Ayton (Eyton), servant of petitioner
Hugh Payn
John Payn of Southampton
Thomas Payn of Southampton.
Note
C 1/19/483 gives a slightly different version of events: according to it, the two merchants were arrested by the Duke, through his servant Thomas Ayton, at Plymouth on the Monday after Pentecost 27 Henry VI (2 June 1449), that they were delivered into the keeping of Peryn Baker and William Romand on 12 July, and Thomas and John Payn took them by force on 7 October, for the mayor, sheriff, bailiffs and community of Southampton. This would suggest a date of c. 1450 for the petition.CPR 1446-52 p.432 is dated at Westminster, 14 November 1450.
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For a related document, see C 1/19/483

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 2925
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen VI, vol. V, 1446-1452, (Public Record Office, 1910), p.432 (commission to the Mayor and Baillifs of Southampton and others to deliver some woad, lately in the hands of John Payn and Thomas Payn, to Peter Baquey of Bordeaux)
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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062488/

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