Walter Frost and Thomas de Ryse, merchants of Beverley Frost; de Ryse Walter; Thomas...

Petitioners

Walter Frost and Thomas de Ryse, merchants of Beverley

Name(s)

Frost; de Ryse, Walter; Thomas

Addressees

King and council.

Places mentioned

Beverley, [East Riding of Yorkshire]

Kingston upon Hull, [East Riding of Yorkshire].

Nature of request

Walter Frost and Thomas de Ryse, merchants of Beverley, ask for payment or an assignment for £65 13s. 4d., which is owed to them from a loan, over the fixed custom, made from the wools charged in the port of Kingston upon Hull.

Nature of endorsement

It is to be sent to the Treasurer, Barons and Chamberlains of the Exchequer, that, when they have seen the letters of which the petition, if they find that the debt is still clearly due, then they are to give them payment or allowance as the petition demands, receiving etc. and charging etc.

For another petition from the same petitioners, see SC 8/261/13044

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. V, 1339-1341, (Public Record Office, 1901), pp.351 (order to the collectors of customs in Kingston upon Hull to let them export these 266 sacks of wool) & 423 (order to make assignment on the subsidy to the petitioners, for a loan of £200)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. IV, 1338-1340, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.407 (protection for the petitioners, who have licence to buy and export 266 sacks of wool for payment of 400 marks to the king)