? No Petitioner named Letter to the King from the Mayor and community of London stating...

Petitioners

? No Petitioner named

Nature of request

Letter to the King from the Mayor and community of London stating that on the Thursday in Pentecost week in the King's tenth year certain pirates and malefactors of the power of William, Count of Hainault, Holland and Zeeland, and lord of Friesland had robbed their fellow-citizen, Stephen Aleyn, at sea, as he was travelling from Sandwich to Berwick upon Tweed to supply the garrison there. The King has written to the Count asking him to have Stephen's goods, or their value, returned to him, and Stephen himself has sued to the Count, but he has done nothing. They request a remedy as the case requires.

Nature of endorsement

[None]

Places mentioned

London

Sandwich, [Kent]

Berwick-upon-Tweed, [Northumberland]

Brele (Brill, Brielle), [Netherlands]

Cirese (Zierikzee), [Netherlands]

Zeeland

Hainault

Holland

Friesland

Ravenser Odd, [East Riding of Yorkshire]

Saltfleetby, [Lincolnshire].

People mentioned

Edward [II], King of England

Mayor and community of London

Stephen Aleyn, citizen of London

John Thomme, ship's master

William [III], Count of Hainault, Holland and Zeeland and lord of Friesland.

For a writ related to SC 8/81/4038, see SC 8/81/4041

For an unrelated petition for restitution from Stephen Aleyn, see SC 8/81/4038

For a later petition from Stephen Aleyn, see SC 8/30/1489

For a letter relating to this matter and to SC 8/88/4372, see SC 8/88/4373

For a petition by Stephen Aleyn see piece 16183 in C 81/297

For a letter related to SC 8/81/4038, see SC 8/81/4040

For a petition related to SC 8/81/4038, see SC 8/81/4039

• Bronnen Tot de Geschiedenis van den Handel met Engelond, Schotland en Ierland, vol. I, ed. H.J. Smit, (Chetham Society, Vol. X, 1928), p.177 (edition of petition)
• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1318-1323, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.398 (order to the Sheriffs of London to arrest goods of the men and merchants of the power of the Count of Hainault, Holland and Zeeland and lord of Friesland, and to keep them until Stephen Aleyn has been satisfied for his losses) & p.259 (order for arrest for an earlier attack on Stephen Aleyn's ship)