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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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John Huchoun, merchant of Sherborne in Dorset; Thomas Peverell, merchant of Sherborne...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/7/327
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/7/327
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1321-1322]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John Huchoun, merchant of Sherborne in Dorset; Thomas Peverell, merchant of Sherborne in Dorset
- Name(s)
- Huchoun; Peverell, John; Thomas
- Addressees
- Council.
- Occupation
- merchant
- Nature of request
- John Huchoun and Thomas Peverell state that they had freighted a ship of Wissant with cloth, canvas and sterling, and that, while they were passing before Portsmouth on the Friday after Michaelmas in the fifteenth year of the king's reign, Robert de la Bataille, Piers Bard, John Baddyng, John Dyne, Andrew Sely and other unknown men of the Cinque Ports boarded the ship with force and arms and carried off the goods and money, claiming that John Huchoun and Thomas Peverell were Roger Damory's men, from Weymouth - whereas they are from Sherborne, and have letters patent from the bishop of Salisbury to prove it. They request a remedy.
- Nature of endorsement
- They are to have a writ of trespass against the trespassers.
- Places mentioned
- Shyrbourne (Sherborne), Dorset
- Whytesond (Wissant), [Artois, France]
- Portsmouth, [Hampshire]
- Cinque Ports
- Weymouthe (Weymouth), [Dorset].
- People mentioned
- Robert de la Bataille
- Piers Bard
- John Baddyng
- John Dyne
- Andrew Sely
- Roger Damory
- [Roger Martival] bishop of Salisbury.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- 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).
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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 4251
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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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- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.413b, no. 152 (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. 152 (summary of references)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060450/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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