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Merchants of the Hanse of Almain. Lords of parliament. The merchants of the Hanse...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/21/1009
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/21/1009
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? 1388]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Merchants of the Hanse of Almain.
- Addressees
- Lords of parliament.
- Nature of request
- The merchants of the Hanse of Almain state that although they have various franchises confirmed by the present king, they are obliged to pay tenths and fifteenths, and other subsidies, and are also obstructed in the enjoyment of other articles of their franchise. Furthermore, all the merchants of the Hanse, with their goods and merchandise throughout England, were arrested and imprisoned for a long time; and they are still under arrest, and the debts owed to them and their goods and merchandise held, as they are accused because the lords of Prussia have seized the goods of English merchants there. They are completely innocent of this, as they can prove. Therefore they request that they and their goods might be freed from arrest and that they might be able to enjoy their franchises as before; or alternatively that they might have their goods and debts, and be allowed to leave the realm under a safe-conduct.
- Nature of endorsement
- It is ordained and assented in parliament that the goods and merchandise which have been seized should be delivered to the complainants. As for the remainder, if they can be divided, then this is to be done, and the goods and merchandise of those from the lordship of Prussia are to be seized, and the rest delivered. If they are not divisible, then they are all to be held. In the meantime, a letter under the privy seal is to be sent to the Master of Prussia, to repay and make redress to the English merchants for the seizures and other wrongs and injuries done to them in the lordship of Prussia.
- Places mentioned
- Almain (Almaine, Germany)
- Pruys (Prussia).
- People mentioned
- English merchants in Prussia.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated in a note on the guard to 'Prob. 1388 - negotiations with Prussia 1386-8'.Rot. Parl. vol. III pp.253b-254a (no. 4) edits this petition as being from 11 Richard II (1387-1388).
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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 4043
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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)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.253b-254a (no. 4) (full edition of original petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061169/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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