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William Geiane, burgess of Bristol; William Creighe, burgess of Bristol. Geiane;...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/213/10625

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Reference
SC 8/213/10625
Date
[1398]
Description
Petitioners
William Geiane, burgess of Bristol; William Creighe, burgess of Bristol.
Name(s)
Geiane; Creighe, William; William
Addressees
King and council.
Occupation
burgess of Bristol
Nature of request
Geiane and Creighe request that an inquest be held into the following accusations made against Stapleton:1) in the previous year instead of sending wine to the King in Ireland as ordered, he sold it and bought wine from La Rochelle and mixed it with inferior wine, and this he sent in its place;2) for the seven years he has occupied the office he has yearly received about 80 tuns of good wine for the King's use, which he has sold, buying inferior wine, and keeping the profits for his own use;3) he sells wine for a greater value than that for which he answers to the King on his account;4) from the profits due to the King from foreign wine he answered to the King for only 2 tuns of little value found in a ship and kept the rest for himself;5) when the King gives anyone wine, he sells the good bottle and gives out wine of lesser value;6) he takes wine from foreigners and denizens in the King's name at whatever price he pleases and sells it for the best price he can get for his own profit, and he often takes wine from merchants and keeps it for so long that he finds a fault with it and says it is not to his liking and pesters the merchants to buy it back at a price of his choosing;7) when he finds in any ship a tun of good wine for the King, he leaves the good wine and takes an inferior one for the King;8) he has claimed and forfeited to his own use the wines of various merchants, for which he never makes account;9) he often rides to Newnham and causes the merchants there to make fine to the King and keeps the fines for himself without making account to the King;10) he takes merchants' and mariners' indentures of their freights which he will not return unless they make fine at his will;11) he arrests and disturbs the vessels of Worcester and Tewkesbury and will not allow them to continue on their journey to trade until they have made fine to him at his pleasure;12) he usurps for himself the wages due to the office's labourers and porters, through threats of incurring the King's anger;13) when Sley was butler he received in Sley's name about 1000 or 1200 marks from the revenues due to the King, which he sent to Castell for safekeeping, and when Sley's executors demanded the same sum from him he threatened to make account to the King for £10000, and so he kept the said money for himself.
Nature of endorsement
[On face] On 24 May in the twenty-first year [1398] the council agreed that a commission will be made of Archer, Bewpeny [deleted], Langbroke [interlined], Colstone and Bastable. [On dorse] On 24 May in the twenty-first year [1398] the council agreed that a commission will be made of Archer, Langbroke, Colstone and Bastable.
Places mentioned
Bristol
Ireland
La Rochelle, [Poitou, France]
Gascony, [France]
Sees, [Normandy, France]
Algarve, [Portugal]
Spain
Weymouth, [Dorset]
Wales
Newnham, Gloucestershire
Worcester, [Worcestershire]
Tewkesbury, [Gloucestershire]
Worcestershire
Somerset.
People mentioned
John Stapilton (Stapleton), King's butler in Bristol
John Burch, merchant of Bristol
Thomas Norton of Bristol
William Boteden, Fleming, merchant
John Stratford of Weymouth, merchant
William Sley, late King's butler in Bristol
John Castell, burgess of Bristol
William Langbrok (Langbroke), clerk of the King's council
Thomas Archer, knight of Somerset
Thomas Bewpeny of Gloucestershire
Thomas Colstone
John Bastable.
Note
Dated on the endorsement to 24 May in the twenty-first year (1398).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Irish Material in the Class of Ancient Petitions (SC 8) in the Public Record Office, Analecta Hibernica, vol. XXIV, P. Connolly, (Stationery Office of Ireland, 1987), p.68 (calendar of small part of petition with references)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9334182/

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