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

Catalogue reference: SC 8/101/5019

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SC 8/101/5019
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, Lieutenant of England.
Occupation
Master
Nature of request
The petitioner seeks recovery of merchandise worth £200 and more to prevent his own ruin and for the king's profit. 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.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Serzie (Zuider Zee), [Netherlands]
Seland (Zeeland), [Netherlands]
Warenne, [Sussex].
People mentioned
Humphrey [Plantagenet], Duke of Gloucester, Lieutenant of England
[Beatrice Fitzalan], Countess of Arundel.
Note
Datable to the protectorate of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester.
Related material

For a related petition see SC 8/101/5016

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 1890
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149587/

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