William Pyere (Pierre), merchant of Mallorca. Pyere (Pierre) William King. merchant...

Petitioners

William Pyere (Pierre), merchant of Mallorca.

Name(s)

Pyere (Pierre), William

Addressees

King.

Occupation

merchant of Mallorca

Nature of request

William Pyere, merchant of Mallorca, requests the restoration of his goods stolen from his ship by an English fleet off the coast of Saint-Mathieu in Brittany. The names of the attackers are given on the dorse, and the Duke of Brittany has attested to his claim.

Nature of endorsement

Gilbert de la Paule of [Great] Yarmouth, master of the 'St Katherine', William de Veus of the Isle of Wight, master of the 'St Nicholas', Richard Parkener, master of the 'La Note' of Haverfordwest, William Clerk, master of the 'La Plentyve' of Dunwich, Henry le Maryner, master of the 'St Michael' of Bristol, William le Molyner, master of the 'La Maudeleyne' of Bristol, Jordan Garland, master of the 'Isabele' of [Great] Yarmouth, Robert Alisaundre, master of the 'Notre Dame' of Shoreham.Lincolnshire: Reginald de Dunyngton seeks a writ against Robert de Benyngworth over two messuages and six librates of land with appurtenances in Binbrook and Ludford, and the advoswon of the church of St Peter in Ludford.

Places mentioned

Malorges (Mallorca, Majorca), [Spain]

Saint-Mathieu, Brittany, [France]

Brittany, [France]

Great Yarmouth, [Norfolk]

Isle of Wight, [Hampshire]

Hereford (Haverfordwest), [Pembrokeshire, Wales]

Dunwich, [Suffolk]

Bristol

Shoreham, [Sussex]

Lincolnshire

Binbrook, [Lincolnshire]

Ludford, [Lincolnshire].

People mentioned

[John II], Duke of Brittany

Gilbert de la Paule (Paul) of Great Yarmouth, ship's master

William de Veus of the Isle of Wight, ship's master

Richard Parkener, ship's master

William Clerk, ship's master

Henry le Maryner (Mariner), ship's master

William le Molyner, ship's master

Jordan Garland, ship's master

Robert Alisaundre (Alexander), ship's master

Reginald de Dunyngton (Dunnington)

Robert de Benyngworth (Benniworth).

For the chancery warrant with which this petition was formerly enclosed see no.5086 of C 81/51

• Calendar of Chancery Warrants, 1244-1326, (Public Record Office, 1927), p.235 (mandate to examine this petition)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. IV, 1301-1307, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.261 (grant of safe conduct to the petitioner) & p.286 (resultant commission of oyer et terminer into this matter)