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Thomas le Brewere (Brewer) of London. Brewere (Brewer) Thomas Council. Brewere requests...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/92/4555
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This record is about the Thomas le Brewere (Brewer) of London. Brewere (Brewer) Thomas Council. Brewere requests... dating from [c. 1346] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/92/4555
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1346]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Thomas le Brewere (Brewer) of London.
- Name(s)
- Brewere (Brewer), Thomas
- Addressees
- Council.
- Nature of request
- Brewere requests that the chancellor be ordered to make a writ to the mayor and sheriffs to proceed to do justice to the parties notwithstanding a writ of supersedeas which was against the law. It had been ordained that a levy was to be made on every sack of wool towards providing armed protection on all boats leaving English ports to go to Flanders. Wesenham had taken it from Brewere but did not wish to give safe-conduct and they were robbed, and following a plea to parliament he sued against Wesenham and others but judgment was delayed by a supersedeas against the statute.
- Nature of endorsement
- Because the king had charged his justices and other ministers to do justice to all, it is assented that the petitioner have a writ of Chancery to the mayor and sheriffs to proceed to final discussion in the plea before them not withstanding the writ of supersedeas.
- Places mentioned
- London
- Flanders
- Sluis, [Netherlands].
- People mentioned
- John de Wesenham, collector of money
- Mayor and sheriffs of London.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition dates to c. 1346 as the supersedeas to which this petition refers was issued on 20 November 1346 (CCR 1346-9, p.173). That this was a wider and continuing problem is revealed by the common petition complaining of the losses suffered by merchants despite the provision of protection for merchants going over seas at a rate of 12d. a sack of wool in the parliament of Hillary 1348 (Rot. Parl., vol. II::pp.171b-172a).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For transcript, see no.29 of PRO 31/7/104
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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 540
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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. VIII, 1346-1349, (Public Record Office, 1905), p.173 (writ of supersedeas)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.171b-172a (common petition requesting provision of protection at 12d. a sack of wool)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149102/
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