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John Fissher (Fisher); John Droys; Thomas Fisshe (Fish); Other merchants of Bristol....

Catalogue reference: SC 8/23/1150

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Reference
SC 8/23/1150
Date
[1416]
Description
Petitioners
John Fissher (Fisher); John Droys; Thomas Fisshe (Fish); Other merchants of Bristol.
Name(s)
Fissher (Fisher); Droys; Fisshe (Fish), John; John; Thomas
Addressees
Commons of parliament.
Places mentioned
Bristuyt (Bristol), [Gloucestershire]
Hareflieu (Harfleur), [Normandy, France]
Bordeaux, [Guyenne, France]
Bretaigne (Brittany), [France]
Nature of request
The petitioners say that when John Fissher's ship, the 'Christopher' of Bristol, was going to Bordeaux during the truce between England and Brittany, it was seized by Bretons, with all the goods and men in it, and the men were imprisoned from the quinzaine of Michaelmas last to the quinzaine of Candlemas - and some of them still are in prison. They ask that the commons ask the king to allow them to take reprisals from the Bretons to make good their losses, notwithstanding any grants, letters patent or other ordinances to the contrary.
Nature of endorsement
[On face] A Roy et as seignurs (To the king and to the lords).[On dorse] Communes petitions non lectis (Common petitions not read). This petition is to be delivered to the king's council, and the lords of the same council are to ordain, by authority of parliament, what seems most reasonable to them on this matter for the party making the complaint.
Note
Dated on the guard to 1416, and by Rot. Parl. Vol. IV p.89b (no. 8) to 3 Henry V. All the other petitions in this section seem to be from the parliament of March 1416, and the document itself certainly seems to have features in common with them: for example the number, like those on SC 8/23/1144, SC 8/23/1149, SC 8/24/1152 and SC 8/24/1153.
Related material

For a petition from a victim of a similar attack, with an identical endorsement, see SC 8/23/1149

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 2659
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. IV, Hen V and Hen VI, (Record Commission, 1783), p.89b (no.8) (full edition of original petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061318/

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