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Arnold Clays, Master of the ship called the Mary of Serzie in Seland. Clays Arnold...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/101/5016

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Reference
SC 8/101/5016
Date
[1422-1429]
Description
Petitioners
Arnold Clays, Master of the ship called the Mary of Serzie in Seland.
Name(s)
Clays, Arnold
Addressees
Duke of Gloucester, Protector of England.
Occupation
Master
Nature of request
The petitioner seeks an order under the privy seal direct to Wakehurst and others (officers of the countess), to deliver to him certain merchandise etc., and if they refuse then they should be brought before the duke and the king's council at the octave of St Hilary now approaching. He states that his ship, loaded with his various goods and those of his friends upon the sea, was driven by storm onto the lands of the countess of Arundel in her lordship of Warenne in Sussex, by which storm and arrival the ship was damaged and broken. Men and merchandise were saved and the petitioner asks the duke for recovery of the said merchandise etc., notwithstanding that those officers of the countess and other men of the land have taken part of the merchandise and goods etc., which the petitioner cannot recover without the duke's assistance.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Serzie (Zuider Zee), [Netherlands]
Seland (Zeeland), [Netherlands]
Warenne, [Sussex].
People mentioned
Humphrey [Plantagenet], Duke of Gloucester, Protector of England
[Beatrice FitzAlan], Countess of Arundel
Richard Wakehurst
Walter Vecy.
Note
Datable to the protectorate of Humphrey of Gloucester.
Related material

For a related petition see SC 8/101/5019

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 1885
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149584/

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