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Tenants of Cromer. Prince [of Wales]. The people of Cromer request the prince's assistance...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/188/9352

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Reference
SC 8/188/9352
Date
[c. 1407-c. 1412]
Description
Petitioners
Tenants of Cromer.
Addressees
Prince [of Wales].
Nature of request
The people of Cromer request the prince's assistance in their case regarding the deaths of people from their town at Wynforde in Norway at the hands of people of the Hanse. Unfortunately this petition is incomplete, and parts of what remains are faded, stained and illegible.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Cromer, [Norfolk]
Wynforde [unidentified], Norway
Norberne (Bergen), [Norway]
Alemagne (Germany)
Denmark
Sweden
Norway.
People mentioned
[Henry of Monmouth], Prince [of Wales]
Henry IV, King of England
[Erik VII], King of Denmark
Philippa, Queen of Denmark, daughter of Henry IV.
Note
Dated on the guard to? c. 1407, with reference to the writ at SC 8/188/9353, dated 24 January 1407 and probably relating to the same matter, and this might well be the bill mentioned in the endorsement of that document. However, the chronology of these events is unclear, and an exemplification given on 15 February 1412 (CPR 1408-13, pp.383-5) shows that the problems between the English merchants and the Hanse of Bergen had been continuing throughout Henry IV's reign. It refers to this attack occurring 'four or five years earlier' (p.384), but it is not clear whether that statement was made in 1412 or in an earlier document being quoted. This would indicate that the attack occurred no later than c. 1407-8, but since the petitioners state that they have pursued this with the king before approaching Prince Henry, the petition clearly dates from some time after the attack, and it may possibly be related to the 1412 exemplification rather than directly to the 1407 writ, which itself makes no mention of Cromer or this attack.
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. IV, 1408-1413, (Public Record Office, 1909), pp.383-5 (exemplification giving details of various related complaints, including this one)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9295230/

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