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Merchants of the Hanse of Almaigne residing in England. King. The merchants state...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/25/1201
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/25/1201
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1426]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Merchants of the Hanse of Almaigne residing in England.
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- The merchants state that certain liberties were granted to them by charters of the king's progenitors, that one alderman of the city of London ought to be assigned to them as a judge before whom they can plead and rapidly recover their debts. However for the preceding seven years they have not had an alderman assigned because the mayor and alderman did not wish it. Although at the last parliament held at Westminster, 3 Henry VI, by the advice of the lords spiritual and temporal that it was to be granted and enacted that an alderman should be appointed, it was not done. The petitioners request that the king consider the matter, and order and assign to them Crowmere, Welles or Frowyk or any other alderman that pleases the king as their alderman and judge. They also request that the king grant that should the alderman so assigned leave the office, that within a month another alderman will be assigned.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let William Crowemere, alderman be assigned as the current alderman and judge to the merchants of the Hanse to perform and do justice as is desired by this petition, and when an alderman is assigned to them in time to come let it be done according to the contents of the petition.
- Places mentioned
- Almaigne (Almaine, Germany)
- London
- Westminster.
- People mentioned
- William Cromere (Cromer), alderman
- John Welles (Wells), alderman
- Henry Frowyk, alderman.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated by the heading in Rot. Parl. IV, p.295 where it is noted that the petition comes from the parliament held at Leicester on 8 February 1426 (4 Hen. VI). This is confirmed by the letters patent issued in response to the petition on 18 February (CPR 1422-9, p.346.
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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 4053
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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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- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen VI, vol. I, 1422-1429 , (Public Record Office, 1901), p.346 (commission to William Crowemere to be alderman and judge in accordance with law merchant in accordance with the petition)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. IV, Hen V and Hen VI, (Record Commission, 1783), p.303a-b (transcription of petition on parliament roll)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061372/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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