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Walter Feteplace, merchant; Piers James, merchant; Ralph Huskard, mariner of Southampton;...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/111/5504

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This record is about the Walter Feteplace, merchant; Piers James, merchant; Ralph Huskard, mariner of Southampton;... dating from [c. 1425-c. 1450] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/111/5504
Date
[c. 1425-c. 1450]
Description
Petitioners
Walter Feteplace, merchant; Piers James, merchant; Ralph Huskard, mariner of Southampton; John Johan (John), mariner of Southampton; Richard Preste, mariner of Southampton.
Name(s)
Feteplace; James; Huskard; Johan (John); Preste, Walter; Piers; Ralph; John; Richard
Addressees
Commons of the present parliament.
Occupation
merchant; mariner of Southampton
Nature of request
The petitioners request that it be ordained by the present parliament that the petitioners and the customers of Southampton be discharged in their account for the subsidy and customs on 60 pokes of Spanish wool which the petitioners imported to Southampton and on to Calais as the wool has been seized by the king's enemies.
Nature of endorsement
[On face].Let this bill be sent to the lords.[On dorse, none].
Places mentioned
Southampton, [Hampshire]
Portugal
Calais, [France]
Crotoy, [Ponthieu, France].
People mentioned
William Soper, clerk of the king's ships.
Note
Dated, impressionistically, on the basis of the hand and the form, to the second quarter of the fifteenth century.
Related material

For transcript, see no.12 of PRO 31/7/118

For a duplicate of this petition see SC 8/118/5863

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 3420
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9150169/

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