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Thomas de Debenham, Merchant of Ipswich. de Debenham Thomas King and council Merchant...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/42/2065
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/42/2065
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1336]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Thomas de Debenham, Merchant of Ipswich.
- Name(s)
- de Debenham, Thomas
- Addressees
- King and council
- Occupation
- Merchant of Ipswich
- Nature of request
- Debenham requests that an arrest be made on the people of the power of the king of France to the value of the boat and goods that were stolen by people of the same power. The admiral of the king ordered that his boat called the Katherine be equipped to go in the service of the king. It was assailed by men of the power of the king of France in 4 boats equipped for war who killed the crew and took the boat, goods and chattels, the matters of which are contained in an inquisition returned into Chancery.1)
- Nature of endorsement
- Coram rege et magno consilio.2) If it found by inquisition returned into Chancery that the robbery was made in the manner, because the passage is not open . . . as is the manner in such cases, he should have a writ of arrest upon the peers and commoners of those trespassers of the places whereof the same trespassers are from upon their goods found in England, thus that at all times that the goods of aliens who are resident in the land who are in lot and scot with others of the land, or who hold free tenements there are not to be arrested by colour of the arrest.
- Places mentioned
- Gippewiz (Ipswich), [Suffolk]
- Great Yarmouth, [Norfolk]
- Erewell (Orwell), [Suffolk]
- Orford, [Suffolk]
- Sluis, [Flanders, Belgium]
- Flanders, [Belgium]
- Seint Walri (St Valery), [Picardy, France]
- Picardy, [France]
- Whitsent (Wissant), [Artois, France].
- People mentioned
- King of France
- Ralph de Bokkyng (Bocking)
- Giles de Wathesham
- [Richard de Bury], Bishop of Durham
- Richard de Byntworth.
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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 2508
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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), p.43 (writ to the sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk to seize the goods in accordance with the response to the petition)
- Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous, vol. II, Edw II - 22 Edw III, (Public Record Office, 1916), no.1568 (writ and inquisition made in accordance with the response to the petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062271/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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