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? No Petitioner named Draft of letters patent appointing commissioners to inquire...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/194/9700

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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Draft of letters patent appointing commissioners to inquire... dating from 1421 in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/194/9700
Date
1421
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Draft of letters patent appointing commissioners to inquire into the theft of a ship and merchandise belonging to William Vandenholde and Bartholomew Bourton, merchants of Bruges.
Nature of endorsement
[An endorsement has been hidden beneath the mounting of the petition].
Places mentioned
Bruges, [Belgium]
Venice, [Italy]
Goldhap (Goultrop Roads), [Pembrokeshire], Wales
Haverford (Haverfordwest) lordship, Wales
Bristol
Plymouth, [Devon]
Westminster
Devon
Somerset
Gloucestershire.
People mentioned
[Henry V], King of England
John Merbury
William Butiller (Butler)
William Vandenholde, merchant of Bruges
Bartholomew Bourton, merchant of Bruges
Rikelet de la Barre, attorney of William Vandenholde and Bartholomew Bourton
William Powles of Bristol
William Bentle of Plymouth
Nicholas Bagot of Bristol
John Burton of Bristol
Robert Russell of Bristol
William Frye
Hugh Luterell, knight
Thomas Stowell, knight
John Warre, esquire
William Poulet, esquire
John Berkeley, knight
Thomas Mylle
Robert Poynes.
Note
Dated 17 October 1421, as is CPR 1416-22 p.418.
Related material

For the petition which gave rise to these letters, see SC 8/194/9699

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen V, vol. II, 1416-1422, (Public Record Office, 1911), p.418 (enrolment of these commissions)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9295587/

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