Skip to main content
Service phase: Beta

This is a new way to search our records, which we're still working on. Alternatively you can search our existing catalogue, Discovery.

Item

? No Petitioner named Letter from the Bailiffs and community of Ipswich to Edward...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/195/9703

What’s it about?

This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Letter from the Bailiffs and community of Ipswich to Edward... dating from 1317 in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

Is it available online?

Yes, this record is available online and can be downloaded. How to view it.

Can I see it in person?

No, this record is not available to see in person at The National Archives. Other ways to view it.

Full description and record details

Reference
SC 8/195/9703
Date
1317
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Letter from the Bailiffs and community of Ipswich to Edward II, stating that on the Sunday before the feast of John the Baptist, in the King's eighth year, Arnold de Stanbergh and Peter his brother, and other malefactors of the power of the Duke of Brabant, seized a ship and merchandise belonging to Gilbert Robert, burgess of Ipswich, Richard Salvayn of Grantham, Richard de Clopton of Grantham and Nicholas de Walsokne, merchants, in the sea off Nieuwpoort in Flanders, and took it to Steenbergen, where they took the goods and some money found in her and did as they pleased with them. Letters from the King, requesting restitution and damages, have had no effect on the Duke, who is under age, or his counsellors. They request that compensation might be given to the merchants for their losses in the customary manner.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Gippeswycum (Ipswich), [Suffolk]
Grantham, [Lincolnshire]
Swine (Het Zwin), [Netherlands]
Flanders
Nieuwpoort, [Belgium]
Steenbergen, [Netherlands]
Brabant.
People mentioned
Edward [II], King of England
the Bailiffs and community of Ipswich
Gilbert Robert, merchant and burgess of Ipswich
Richard Salvayn, merchant of Grantham
Richard de Clopton, merchant of Grantham
Nicholas de Walsokne, merchant
Arnold de Stanbergh (Steenbergen)
Peter [de Stanbergh (Steenbergen)], brother of Arnold de Stanbergh
[John (Jan) III], Duke of Brabant.
Note
Dated 5 February 10 Edward II (1317). CCR 1313-18 p.398 is dated 26 March 1317.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. II, 1313-1318, (Public Record Office, 1893), p.398 (order to the Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, and the Sheriff of Huntingdonshire, to arrest goods of the men of the Duke of Brabant's power to the value of the merchants' losses)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9295590/

How to order it

  1. View this record page in our current catalogue
  2. Check viewing and downloading options
  3. Select an option and follow instructions
View this record page

Series information

SC 8

Special Collections: Ancient Petitions

See the series level description for more information about this record.

View series description

Catalogue hierarchy

Over 27 million records

This record is held at The National Archives, Kew

74,884 records

Within the department: SC

Records of various departments, arranged artificially according to type, and formerly...

18,283 records

Within the series: SC 8

Special Collections: Ancient Petitions

52 records

Within the piece: SC 8/195

9701-9750. Individual petitions are described , dated, and are available at item...

You are currently looking at the item: SC 8/195/9703

? No Petitioner named Letter from the Bailiffs and community of Ipswich to Edward...

Related records

Records that share similar topics with this record.