? No Petitioner named Examination made by Barton, Farington and Muskham concerning...

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Nature of request

Examination made by Barton, Farington and Muskham concerning the capture of Gonzalez's ship on the oath of those named within and sworn in Chancery at Westminster:1) Polymond says that after Gonzalez brought his suit against him to have remedy, being foreign merchants not of the king's enmity, Polymond immediately sent Bere to tell John Foxton, who was in control of the ship in the absence of its owner and master because he was the owner's blood-relative, and his associates to allow the merchants and mariners of the Portuguese ship to lead their ship, with its merchandises, to safety at Southampton without impediment.2) Bere says that after he received Polymond's order, he went to Foxton's ship where the ship's mariners immediately started throwing stones at him, not wanting him to enter the ship, and beat him and took his mace so that he dared say no more for fear of his life, and he did not find John de Foxton in the Portuguese ship but, seeing him in a boat next to the ship, told him but received no answer.3) Polymond, when Bere reported this, sent Lange to those English mariners, who asked them to bring the Portuguese ship with its merchandises amicably, and if they would Polymond would be bound to them in £1000 to satisfy and repay them for those goods and merchandises if they were found to belong to enemies, and restitution of the goods would be decreed by the King's council.4) Lange says that when he came to the Portuguese ship on Polymond's order he found John de Foxton, who showed him good will, and the other English mariners in the Portuguese ship, and when he explained to them that they should bring the ship to Southampton amicably under condition that the mayor would be bound as above, the mariners whispered amongst themselves against him so that he feared for his life and dared to say no more on that subject, but he saw and knows that John de Foxton also does not dare to discuss the subject with his associates, but secretly told Lange: 'you see how these men are and how dangerous it would be to bring up this subject with them'. John de Foxton is not in control of these mariners.5) Coke says that on the Sunday that the ship was captured, he was afterwards with John de Foxton at Southampton and Foxton told him that he could not remain but must go to his associates since he had news that his associates were fighting an enemy ship of Spain.6) Dawe, Aldeyn and Reygate say that they know nothing about this matter of the ship's capture except that they heard from others that a Spanish ship was captured by an English ship belonging to William de Foxton.

Nature of endorsement

[None].

Places mentioned

Portugal

Westminster

Southampton, [Hampshire]

Spain.

People mentioned

Peter de Barton

Robert de Faryngton (Farington)

Robert de Muskham

John Gounsales (Gonzalez) of Portugal

John Polymond, then mayor of Southampton

William atte Bere, serjeant of Southampton

John de Foxton, ship's purser of the ship of William de Foxton

William de Foxton

Walter Lange

Nicholas Coke

Thomas Dawe

John Aldeyn

Walter Raygate (Reygate).

For a related list see SC 8/213/10610

For a related petition see SC 8/213/10607

For a related document see SC 8/213/10617

For a related writ see SC 8/213/10601