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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 (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/5/239
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1322]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- 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.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- 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).
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Parliamentary Petition 482
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
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- 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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060359/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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