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? No Petitioner named Letter from Edward III to William Count of Hainault, Holland...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/88/4373

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Reference
SC 8/88/4373
Date
1330
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Letter from Edward III to William Count of Hainault, Holland and Zealand, and Lord of Friesland, asking him to give Stephen Aleyn justice in the matter of restitution for his ship, goods and merchandise, stolen at sea by malefactors and pirates of the Count's dominion on the way to Berwick upon Tweed, dated 1 November 2 Edward III [1328], enclosed within a later letter to the same effect of 20 March 4 Edward III [1330].
Nature of endorsement
[None: the writing on the dorse is a continuation of the letter.]
Places mentioned
Hainault
Holland
Zealand
Friesland, [Netherlands]
London
Sandwich, [Kent]
Berwick-upon-Tweed, [Northumberland]
Norfolk
Suffolk
Ravenser Odd, [East Riding of Yorkshire]
Saltfleetby, [Lincolnshire]
Flanders
Salisbury, [Wiltshire].
People mentioned
[Edward III], King of England
William, Count of Hainault, Holland and Zealand and Lord of Friesland
Edward [II], King of England
Stephen Aleyn, citizen and merchant of London
the Mayor and community of London.
Note
Letters dated 1 November 2 Edward III [1328] and 20 March 4 Edward III [1330].
Related material

Another petition from the same petitioner is SC 8/81/4038

For a related petition from the same petitioner is no. 16183 of C 81/297

A letter concerning Stephen Aleyn is SC 8/195/9736

For a related petition from the same petitioner is SC 8/30/1489

A petition relating to that petition is SC 8/81/4039

A document relating to that petition is SC 8/81/4040

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 79
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. I, 1327-1330, (Public Record Office, 1896), pp.392-393 (enrolment of an earlier letter on the subject, dated 20 May 1328)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. II, 1330-1333, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.138 (enrolment of the letter dated 20 March 1330)
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