Merchants of the Hanse of Almaine. King and lords spiritual and temporal in parliament....

Petitioners

Merchants of the Hanse of Almaine.

Addressees

King and lords spiritual and temporal in parliament.

Nature of request

The merchants of the Hanse of Almaine state that, as John Perveys and Ralph Barton, Sheriffs of London, demanded customs and payments from them which were more than they used to pay, and distrained them for these, contrary to their letters patent from the kings of England, confirmed by Henry V, they have sued a bill to the King's council for two years and more, resulting in a process which was still pending when the late king died. Now William Estfeld and Robert Tatershale, Sheriffs of London, are again distraining them. They ask that the justices of both benches might be ordered to examine the record of this plea and to discuss and determine the matter, and that the Sheriffs be asked to cease their distraints in the meantime; or that some other suitable remedy be found for the supplicants in this parliament.

Nature of endorsement

[On face] Legitur (it is read).[On dorse] The answer to this petition appears on a schedule sewn to it.

Places mentioned

Almaigne (Almaine) (Germany)

Loundres (London).

People mentioned

John Perveys (Pervis), Sheriff of London

Ralph Barton, Sheriff of London

William Estfeld, Sheriff of London

Robert Tatershale, Sheriff of London.

For a related petition from the same petitioners is SC 8/20/996

The schedule containing the response to this petition is SC 8/24/1179

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Hen VI, vol. I, 1422-1429, (Public Record Office, 1933), pp.49-50 (writ of supersedeas to the Sheriffs in accordance with the response to this petition)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. IV, Hen V and Hen VI, (Record Commission, 1783), p.192a-b (no.1) (full edition of original petition and of attached schedule)