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Adam le Clerk of King's Lynn. Clerk Adam King and council. Clerk shows that he sued...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/2/84

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Reference
SC 8/2/84
Date
[1318]
Description
Petitioners
Adam le Clerk of King's Lynn.
Name(s)
Clerk, Adam
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Clerk shows that he sued for the return which he had to the bailiffs of Great Yarmouth for the seizure of the goods of the merchants of Lubeck, Stralsund and Greifswold but Henry Rose, one of the bailiffs there, has obstructed this saying that the goods were not there but in Germany. Clerk requests remedy saying that the goods and ships are not in Germany.
Nature of endorsement
He should purchase a writ of trespass against Henry, or he should sue a writ before the justices assigned to hear and determine trespasses made by bailiffs.
Places mentioned
King's Lynn, [Norfolk]
Jernemuth (Great Yarmouth), [Norfolk]
Lubeck, [Germany]
Stralsund, [Germany]
Gripeswold (Greifswald), [Germany]
Almanye (Almaine) (Germany)
Ravenser Odd, [East Riding of Yorkshire].
People mentioned
Henry Rose, Bailiff of Great Yarmouth.
Note
The petition appears to date to 1318, as Clerk seems to have had final settlement from a ship and goods seized from merchants of Lubeck and to be appraised by the bailiffs of Ravenser Odd in October of that year (CCR 1318-23, pp. 20-1).
Related material

For transcript, see no.52 of PRO 31/7/95

For another petition by the same petitioner, see SC 8/39/1940

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 1660
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1318-1323, (Public Record Office, 1895), pp. 20-1 (order to the bailiffs of Ravenser Odd to appraise the value of the ship and goods of merchants of Lubeck to recompense Clerk)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.317b (no. 121) (Latin summary of earlier related petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060197/

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