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Walter Southerne, mariner of Ireland. Southerne Walter King and council. mariner...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/141/7003

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Reference
SC 8/141/7003
Date
[? c. 1324]
Description
Petitioners
Walter Southerne, mariner of Ireland.
Name(s)
Southerne, Walter
Addressees
King and council.
Occupation
mariner of Ireland
Nature of request
Walter Southerne, mariner of Ireland, states that he was captured at sea by Thomas Don, mariner of Scotland, and held by the Scots until Andrew de Hartcla and Robert de Leybourn took the Isle of Man, when he surrendered to the King's peace. However, Walter le Striveyn of Pontefract, not knowing this, maliciously suggested to the Mayor and Sheriffs of London that he was the King's enemy, and he was arrested and thrown into Newgate prison, where he has been for seven years. He asks that he might be released.
Nature of endorsement
Coram domino rege.The Sheriffs of London are to be ordered to inform the King about the manner and cause of the arrest, that the King might further do etc.
Places mentioned
Ireland
Scotland
Isle of Man
Pontefract, [West Riding of Yorkshire]
London
Newgate prison, [London].
People mentioned
Thomas Don, mariner of Scotland
Andrew de Hartcla (Harcla, Harclay)
Robert de Leybourn
Walter le Striveyn of Pontefract.
Note
Dated on the guard to '? Ed. II, before 1322' (perhaps with reference to Andrew de Harcla, although there is no reason to suppose from this that he is still alive), and dated by 'Irish Ancient Petitions' to 'c. 1307-1322', presumably on the same grounds. The reference to the English capture of the Isle of Man seven years previously (i.e. 1317) suggests the petition can be dated more positively to the mid-1320s.
Related material

For transcript, see no.110 of PRO 31/7/97

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Irish Material in the Class of Ancient Petitions (SC 8) in the Public Record Office, Analecta Hibernica, vol. XXIV, P. Connolly, (Stationery Office of Ireland, 1987), p.48 (brief calendar of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9209137/

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