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Petitioners

John de Barton, merchant.

Name(s)

de Barton, John

Addressees

King and council

Occupation

merchant

Nature of request

John de Barton, merchant, states, on behalf of himself and his companions, that they had a ship loaded with goods and chattels, and gold and silver, to the sum of £200 in the port of Fecamp in Normandy, in the power of the abbot of Fecamp, and that while they were in the town buying various necessities, Roger Fourmentine and other malefactors, men of the abbot, entered the ship, killed one of John de Barton's companions, who was keeping watch, and carried off their goods. John and his companions raised the hue and cry, and for this the abbot seized them, bound their hands and imprisoned them, so that they could not pursue the malefactors; and received the malefactors openly. John requests a remedy, for himself and his companions.Let it be known that the said abbot has lands and tenements in the county of Sussex.

Nature of endorsement

This was answered elsewhere.

Places mentioned

Fescham (Fecamp), [Normandy, France]

Normandy, [France]

Sussex.

People mentioned

Abbot of Fecamp

Roger Fourmentine.

A related petition is SC 8/112/5565

A duplicate petition, differently endorsed, is SC 8/18/879

A related writ is SC 8/258/12890B

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. I, 1327-1330, (Public Record Office, 1896), pp.181-2 (order for the abbot's goods to be seized, to give satisfaction to the petitioner)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum Anglie Hactenus Inediti, Ed. H.G. Richardson and G.O. Sayles, (Camden Society, 3rd Series, vol. LI, 1935), p.174 (later Latin summary of later related petition and edition of later petition)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.439b, no. 81 (later English summary of later related petition)