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Merchants of England trading with Holland, Zeeland, Flanders and Brabant. [None specified]...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/126/6265

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This record is about the Merchants of England trading with Holland, Zeeland, Flanders and Brabant. [None specified]... dating from [1426] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/126/6265
Date
[1426]
Description
Petitioners
Merchants of England trading with Holland, Zeeland, Flanders and Brabant.
Addressees
[None specified]
Nature of request
The English merchants request that letters be sent to the officials of Middelburg, seeking the restoration of goods taken from certain merchants. They recount how, although relations between the merchants and the authorities had always been good, on a recent visit certain merchants were badly treated, and as a result letters of safe conduct were sought from the authorities of Middelburg. These were granted, but despite these certain merchants have been arrested in Middelburg and imprisoned for nine days, forced to hand over their keys, and had their goods taken.
Nature of endorsement
[on face] For the Duke of Bedford, 18 March.
Places mentioned
Holland, [Netherlands]
Zeeland, [Netherlands]
Flanders
Brabant
Middleburg, [Netherlands].
People mentioned
[Michael de Nieubberne], Bailiff of Middelburg
Burgomasters of Middelburg
Echevins of Middelburg
[John of Lancaster], Duke of Bedford.
Note
A translation of the letters of protection mentioned in the petition, complete with notarial certification, is now at C 47/30/9/13. The letters themselves are dated 12 January 1425, while the translation was made and certified on 15 February 1425. This would appear to be the copy formerly attached to the petition, since a note on the dorse reads 'special petitions of the fourth year', which would seem to date the two documents to the Leicester parliament of 1426.
Related material

For the translated copy of the letters of safe conduct formerly attached to this petition, see C 47/30/9/13

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 5544
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Bronnen Tot de Geschiedenis van den Handel met Engelond, Schotland en Ierland, vol. I, ed. H.J. Smit, (Chetham Society, Vol. X, 1928), pp.620-1 (edition of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9208439/

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