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William de Duresme (Durham), Merchant of Darlington, brother of John de Durham; John...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/44/2163

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Reference
SC 8/44/2163
Date
[1337]
Description
Petitioners
William de Duresme (Durham), Merchant of Darlington, brother of John de Durham; John de Duresme (Durham), merchant, brother of William de Durham.
Name(s)
de Duresme (Durham); de Duresme (Durham), William; John
Addressees
King and council
Occupation
Merchant
Nature of request
The merchants show that they shipped wool to trade in Flanders in times of peace but it has been seized and detained by the count and his ministers to their great impoverishment. They request remedy.
Nature of endorsement
Coram rege et magno consilio.Let certain men be assigned to enquire by oaths of merchants and of others if the arrest was made as the petition supposes, when the inquisition is returned if it is found that the petition is truthful then if the sea passage be closed as it is now, then they should have arrests on the countrymen, the arrest not extending to merchandises and goods of men resident in England, or of their free tenements; and if the passage is open, then they should sue by the ancient course.
Places mentioned
Darlington, [County Durham]
Flanders
People mentioned
Men of Flanders
Count of Flanders.
Note
The petition can be firmly dated to 1337 as the writ and inquisition ordered by the response to the petition were issued and held on 28 May and 23 June 1337 respectively (CIM 1307-49, no.1562).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 2635
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. IV, 1337-1339, (Public Record Office, 1900), p.432 (writ to the collectors of customs at Hartlepool to make allowance to the Durhams to a certain sum)
  • Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous, vol. II, Edw II - 22 Edw III, (Public Record Office, 1916), no.1562 (writ and inquisition into the matter in accordance with the endorsement of the petition)
  • Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), pp.168-9 (no.126) (full edition of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062373/

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