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George de la Bourse, merchant and burgess of Bruges. Bourse George Keeper of the...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/96/4788
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/96/4788
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1422
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- George de la Bourse, merchant and burgess of Bruges.
- Name(s)
- Bourse, George
- Addressees
- Keeper of the Privy Seal.
- Occupation
- merchant and burgess of Bruges
- Nature of request
- George de la Bourse, speaking for himself and for his fellow-merchants, states that he has long sued to the Duke of Gloucester and others of the council concerning their goods and merchandise in a ship whose master was Gomes Pita of La Coruña, which were stolen at sea by certain people from Bristol and Barnstaple. He asks the aid of the Keeper of the Privy Seal, asking him to ask the council to summon the malefactors before them, so that they might make compensation for their losses and damages.
- Nature of endorsement
- On 7 December in the first year it was granted by the council that writs are to be sent to the persons names in the petition, to appear before the council at Westminster at the quindene of Hilary, on pain of £40 each, to answer to the accusations made against them there and then.On 11 February in the same year it was granted that a writ be sent to the Sheriff of Bristol and Devon to attach the persons named below, to have them before the council at the quindene of Easter, to answer as above; at Westminster, in the presence of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishops of London, Winchester, and Worcester, the Earls of March, Warwick and Northumberland, Cromwell, Tiptoft, and Hungerford, the Chancellor, Treasurer, and Keeper of the Privy Seal.
- Places mentioned
- Bruges, [Belgium]
- Flanders
- Constance, [Switzerland]
- La Coruna, [Spain]
- Bristol
- Barnstaple, [Devon]
- Westminster.
- People mentioned
- Conrad Sprutenhoue, merchant of Constance
- Bartholomew Borton
- merchant and burgess of Bruges
- William Vande Houte, merchant and burgess of Bruges
- [Humphrey of Lancaster], Duke of Gloucester
- Gomes Pita of La Coruña, ship's master
- John Dyttemay, captain of a hulk
- John Savage, knight
- Nicholas Stokkes
- Thomas Passeware
- Thomas Vinpere
- John Denys
- John Morgan
- Nicholas Mynes
- Angelo, captain of a barge
- [Henry Chichele], Archbishop of Canterbury
- [John Kempe], Bishop of London
- [Henry Beaufort], Bishop of Winchester
- [Philip Morgan], Bishop of Worcester
- [Edmund de Mortimer], Earl of March
- [Richard Beauchamp], Earl of Warwick
- [Henry de Percy], Earl of Northumberland
- [Ralph] Cromwell
- [John] Tiptoft
- [Walter] Hungerford
- [Thomas Langley], Chancellor of England
- [John Stafford] Treasurer of England
- [William Alnwick], Keeper of the Privy Seal.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The first response to this petition is dated 7 December 1 Henry VI (1422), and the second is dated 11 February following. The attack seems to have taken place the previous May. Although William Alnwick, Keeper of the Privy Seal, was appointed as one of the commission on 11 February, the Keeper of the Privy Seal at the time when the petition was presented was John Stafford.
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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 1033
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149354/
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