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Albrith (Albrecht) de Breme (Bremen), merchant of Germany. de Breme (Bremen) Albrith...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/5/239

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Reference
SC 8/5/239
Date
[1322]
Description
Petitioners
Albrith (Albrecht) de Breme (Bremen), merchant of Germany.
Name(s)
de Breme (Bremen), Albrith (Albrecht)
Addressees
King and council.
Occupation
merchant
Nature of request
He states that, while he was with his ship, the Cruxenbergh, laden with beds, chests, cloth, arms, provisions (such as corn, meat, fish), beer, flax (lyn), cinders, and iron - he lists the amounts and values of all these -in harbour at Harwich, on the Sunday after the feast of St Mark last, two ships, from Winchelsea and Greenwich, arrived, full of armed men, who attacked him and his nine companions, drove them from the ship, wounded them, and killed one of his mariners, Ulrich de Bremen. They then stole the ship. He requests a suitable remedy.
Nature of endorsement
None.
Places mentioned
Germany
Herewelle (Harwich), [Essex]
Winchelsea, [Sussex]
Grenewyz (Greenwich), [Kent].
People mentioned
Wulrik (Ulrich) de Breme (Bremen), mariner.
Note
The petition is dated to 1322 by a commission of oyer and terminer issued on the matter at York on 16 May 1322 (CPR 1321-1324, p. 160).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 482
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. IV, 1321-1324, (Public Record Office, 1904), p.160 (commission of oyer et terminer to Edmund de Hemmegrave, Simon de Hedersete and John Claver, to hear this complaint with a jury of Suffolk. The malefactors are named as John Lambot, Thomas Sprynget, Robert Leuys of Greenwich, Thomas Gilour, Alexander de Sandwyco, Gervase Alard of Winchelsea, the younger, Henry Alard and Henry his brother, and others)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.397a, no.56 (full edition of original petition)
  • The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rot. Parl., vol. I, pp. 387-415, no. 56 (summary of references)
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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060359/

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