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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Thomas Blakeneye (Blakeney), citizen of London, master of the boat called Pater Noster...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/34/1678
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/34/1678
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1337]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Thomas Blakeneye (Blakeney), citizen of London, master of the boat called Pater Noster of London; Gilbert de Boloyne (Bologne), master of the boat called the Katherine of Scarborough; John de Jernemuthe (Yarmouth), master of the boat called Michael of Lynn.
- Name(s)
- Blakeneye (Blakeney); de Boloyne (Bologne); de Jernemuthe (Yarmouth), Thomas; Gilbert; John
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The masters charged their boats with wines, salt, drapes and with other diverse merchandises and departed to England and passed through many places in the power of the king of France in peace time, and there came people of Normandy, Picardy and of other places in the power of the king of France arrayed for war and seized them and their boats to the value of £1,700, and they were imprisoned to their great ruin. The king had ordered by his letters to the king of France that due restoration be made to the merchants of the sum and damages, but they have still not received restitution. They request a writ of arrest.
- Nature of endorsement
- Coram rege et magno consilio.Let certain good men be assigned by a commission of the great seal to inquire both by the oath of merchants as of others if the robbery was made as the petition supposed, and by whom, and of whose power they are, and of what goods and merchandises they were robbed, and of what value, and of other articles, and when the inquisition was returned, and if it was made when the passage of the sea was closed as it is now, then they should have arrest upon the countrymen of the robbers, but not from the goods and merchandises of merchants residing in England, nor those who had free tenements in England. If the passage be open when the inquisition be returned then let it be ordered to the lords to do right, and let it be further held by ancient course.
- Places mentioned
- London
- Scarborough, [North Riding of Yorkshire]
- King's Lynn, [Norfolk]
- Beauvoir-sur-mer, [Poitou, France]
- Normandy, [France]
- Picardy, [France]
- la Garnache, [Poitou, France].
- People mentioned
- King of France.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition firmly dates to 1337 as the commission for the enquiry into this was issued on 3 May 1337 (CIM 1307-49, pp.387-8).
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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 329
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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 Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. IV, 1337-1339, (Public Record Office, 1900), pp.455-6 (writ ordering the sheriff of Southampton to seize goods, reciting the case at length)
- Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous, vol. II, Edw II - 22 Edw III, (Public Record Office, 1916), pp.387-8 (commission and inquisition made in accordance with the response to the petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061875/
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