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William Smalwode, merchant and citizen of London. Smalwode William King and council....

Catalogue reference: SC 8/86/4262

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Reference
SC 8/86/4262
Date
[c. 1369]
Description
Petitioners
William Smalwode, merchant and citizen of London.
Name(s)
Smalwode, William
Addressees
King and council.
Occupation
merchant and citizen of London
Nature of request
William Smalwode states that although he seized six ships with merchandise, belonging to the King's Spanish enemies, at sea on 13 June in the King's forty-third year, the ships and merchandise were delivered to Reginald Love on 12 September in the same year, because he falsely claimed to have lost a ship, stolen by the Spaniards, and because of claims of other ships lost by people from Bristol. He asks that Reginald might answer on this in parliament.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
London
Spain
Sandwich, [Kent]
Vermyou (Bermeo), [Spain]
Mundaca, [Spain]
Flanders
Bristol
Seville, [Spain].
People mentioned
Reginald Love, merchant of London.
Note
The ships were seized on 13 June, 43 Edward III (1369), CCR 1369-74 p.30 (the order to appraise them) is dated 15 June 1369, and they were delivered to Reginald Love on 12 September in the same year. The petition must date from shortly after this.
Related material

For a related petition see SC 8/139/6934

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 7431
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. XIII, 1369-1374, (Public Record Office, 1910), p.30 (order to appraise five Spanish ships taken at sea, and to deliver them to the petitioner, Reginald Love, and certain merchants of Bristol, in recompense for their own ships and goods taken by the Spaniards)
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