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William de Forbernard of La Reole, merchant. de Forbernard William King and council....

Catalogue reference: SC 8/6/288

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Reference
SC 8/6/288
Date
[1321-1322]
Description
Petitioners
William de Forbernard of La Reole, merchant.
Name(s)
de Forbernard, William
Addressees
King and council.
Occupation
merchant
Nature of request
William de Forbernard, a merchant of La Réole, states that in Gascony he had loaded his wines into a ship called the Pater Noster, belonging to John Perbroun of Great Yarmouth, to be carried to Boston, but that on the Sunday at the octave of Easter last, Piers Bert of Sandwich, Gervase Athelard of Winchelsea, and Robert Cleves of Greenwich took wines from the ship off the Foreland of Thanet: Piers Bert six tuns, Gervase Athelard two tuns and a pipe, and Robert Cleves one pipe. He requests a remedy from the king, as these men are in his service.
Nature of endorsement
He is to have recourse to common law.
Places mentioned
La Reule (La Reole), [Guyenne, France]
Gernemue (Great Yarmouth), [Norfolk]
Seint Botouf (Boston), [Lincolnshire]
Sandwich, [Kent]
Winchelsea, [Sussex]
Greenwich, [Kent]
Thanet, [Kent].
People mentioned
John Perbroun of Great Yarmouth
Piers Bert of Sandwich
Gervase Athelard of Winchelsea
Robert Cleves of Greenwich.
Note
One of a collection of petitions published on pages 387ff of Rot. Parl., vol I., which all seem to date from around 1322. This dating is confirmed by PROME, Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rotuli Parliamentorum I, pp. 387-415, which dates these petitions to 15 or 16 Edward II (1321-1323).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 3535
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.406a, no.109 (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.109 (summary of references)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060410/

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