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Merchants of Chester: William de Donecastre (Doncaster); Benedict de Staundon (Standon);...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/164/8196
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/164/8196
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1322]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Merchants of Chester: William de Donecastre (Doncaster); Benedict de Staundon (Standon); William le Clerk; Richard Russel; Roger le Blound (Blount); William de Wirm...ham deleted; Alan de Smetheton; Thomas le Taverner; Roger le Harper.
- Name(s)
- de Donecastre (Doncaster); de Staundon (Standon); le Clerk; Russel; le Blound (Blount); de Wirm...ham ; de Smetheton; le Taverner; le Harper, William; Benedict; William; Richard; Roger; William; Alan; Thomas; Roger
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The merchants of Chester request remedy for losses occurring when they freighted a ship called the Nicholas of Lymington with 105 tuns and 7 pipes of wine and other merchandise to the value of £400 to bring them from the haven of Bordeaux to Chester. When the ship lay at anchor in a place called the Stonehouse near Anglesey, Combe and Bonevile came to the ship and entered her, and saw the charter of her merchandises testifying that freight charges were paid at Chester, and had a transcript thereof. Then, on 10 November last, Wetenhale, Bonevile, Nases, Tabard, le Fevir, Poppleton and other armed men came and raised hue and cry, and brought there the King's springals, crossbows and other arms from Caernarfon castle, and fired the springals and crossbows at the ship, so that for fear of death and that the ship should be sunk, the sailors asked for peace and held their hands and arms in the sign of peace, but were ignored. The men continued to fire at the ship, so that to save their lives the merchants and sailors set sail for the high sea and were caught in a hideous storm, forcing them into parts unknown where their boat and two sailors were lost, five of their men were wounded to death and 37 tuns and 5 pipes of wine were lost and the other wine deteriorated, to the damage of the merchants to the value of £260. Provided that Wetenhale is not benefited by the suit which he brought against them. And for the evil done to them by Wetenhale ... to approach with their merchandises ... a ship of Winchelsea freighted with wine and other merchandise headed towards parts of Wales and was wrecked there and the people on the ship were all ... by Wetenhale who, by reason of his office, took 30 tons of their wine for the King's use to victual the castle of North Wales and only gave the merchants 28s for it, and then the said wine was carried to Chester where he sold it for his profit ..., namely 6d per gallon ... to the great damage of the King and fear of the loss of the said castles in the tribulation which then existed in his ... oppression. The merchants request that the King ordain for ... to pass and rest when they come to those coasts ... your merchants cannot ....
- Nature of endorsement
- [On face:] Coram Rege.[On dorse:] It should go to the chancellor to have protection for remedy of another ...
- Places mentioned
- Chester
- Lymington, [Hampshire]
- Bordeaux, [Guyenne, France]
- Stonehouse near Anglesey, [Wales]
- North Wales
- Beaumaris, [Anglesey, Wales]
- Caernarfon, [Caernarfonshire, Wales]
- Winchelsea, [Sussex]
- Chester, [Cheshire].
- People mentioned
- Walter de Combe, clerk of Adam de Wettenhall
- Geoffrey de Bonevile, clerk of Adam de Wettenhall
- Adam de Wetenhale (Wettenhall), chamberlain of North Wales
- Robert Nases
- Jack Tabard
- Stephen le Fevir of Beaumaris
- Alan de Popelton (Poppleton).
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated on the guard to 1322, with reference to CCR 1318-23, pp. 453-4, which states that this petition was presented at the 1322 parliament at York.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1318-1323, (Public Record Office, 1895), pp.453-454 (order to hear this complaint)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294041/
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