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Edmund White. White Edmund Council. Edmund White states that he was a prisoner of...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/147/7312

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Reference
SC 8/147/7312
Date
1407
Description
Petitioners
Edmund White.
Name(s)
White, Edmund
Addressees
Council.
Nature of request
Edmund White states that he was a prisoner of the French until his brother, John Whyte, offered himself as a hostage in his place; and the King of France then gave Edmund letters of safe conduct for a year to bring a ship filled with merchandise to France to sell to pay his ransom and that of other English prisoners, returning with French merchandise. He requests permission to take such a ship, filled with merchandise other than arms and food, to France, and to buy merchandise there to bring back to England.
Nature of endorsement
On 12 February in the eighth year etc., in the presence in the council of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Chancellor, the Bishops of London, Winchester and Durham, the Earl of Somerset, the Treasurer, the Keeper of the Privy Seal, the Steward and the Chamberlain, it was agreed that the supplicant can charge such a vessel as set out in the petition, with any merchandise except armour, armaments, food and merchandise pertaining to the staple.
Places mentioned
France.
People mentioned
John Whyte (White), brother of petitioner
[Charles VI], King of France
[Thomas Arundel], Archbishop of Canterbury and Chancellor of England
[Nicholas Bubwith], Bishop of London
[Henry Beaufort], Bishop of Winchester
[Thomas Langley], Bishop of Durham
[John Beaufort], Earl of Somerset
[Thomas Neville, Lord Furnival], Treasurer of England
[John Prophet], Keeper of the Privy Seal
[John Stanley], Steward of the Household
[Richard Grey, Lord Grey of Codnor], Chamberlain of the Household.
Note
Endorsement dated 12 February 8 Henry IV (1407); this date is confirmed by CPR 1405-8 p.288.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen IV, vol. III, 1405-1408, (Public Record Office, 1907), p.288 (enrolment of this permission)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9209496/

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