Merchants of the Hanse of Germany. King and Council. The merchants present a list...

Petitioners

Merchants of the Hanse of Germany.

Addressees

King and Council.

Nature of request

The merchants present a list of grievances brought by envoys from the towns of the Hanse, which they were ordered to present to this parliament.1) They request restitution of undue customs charges made upon them against their privileges.2) They request restitution for an attack the previous year on one of their ships from Gdansk off the coast of Southampton.3) Eight years ago a ship in Boston had been wrongfully seized by the customs officials, who were claiming customs payments which had already been paid.4) They request remedy for an attack on a Prussian ship six years before in Boston.5) They request restitution for Hallenbergh, whose ship and its cargo of wine had been requisitioned by the men of the Duke of Lancaster.6) They request restitution for John Lonenborgh of Gdansk, who had been attacked in Colchester six years previously.

Nature of endorsement

Bill of parliament of the third year of King Richard, delivered into the Chancery by John Bouland etc., 8 March 2 Richard II (1379).... before all the lords of parliament.

Places mentioned

Almaigne (Germany)

Holy Roman Empire

Dansk (Danzig, Gdansk), [Poland]

Flanders

Southampton, [Hampshire]

Fowey, [Cornwall]

Plymouth, [Devon]

Boston, [Lincolnshire]

Norway

Prussia

Lincoln, [Lincolnshire]

Bordeaux, [Guyenne, France]

Colchester, [Essex].

People mentioned

Tideman Stikler

John Hobbe

Nicholas Martyn (Martin) of Fowey

John Pynwyn of Plymouth

Guys van den Cluys

Frederick de Tilney

William de Spaigne

Richard de Newton

John Hersik

Heyn Semelo

Herman Hallenbergh, burgess of Gdansk

[John of Gaunt], Duke of Lancaster

John Lonenborgh, burgess of Gdansk

William Neuport (Newport) of London.

For a related petition see SC 8/116/5764