Thomas de Berwyk (Berwick) and Alan de Chambre, attorneys. de Berwyk (Berwick); de...

Petitioners

Thomas de Berwyk (Berwick) and Alan de Chambre, attorneys.

Name(s)

de Berwyk (Berwick); de Chambre, Thomas; Alan

Addressees

King and Council.

Occupation

attorneys

Nature of request

Berwyk and Chambre, proctors and attorneys for Preston, Dun and other merchants of Edinburgh, state that the merchants' ship, bound for Zeeland, was taken at sea by Dan and the goods taken to Winchelsea and Sandwich, claiming that they belonged to rebels of Gloucester and his wife, the Countess of Holland. The Duke ordered the Lieutenant of Dover to restore the goods to the merchants, but the customers have refused to do this until customs have been paid. The petitioners request that the customers be ordered to release the goods without customs, as they were taken there by force and against the will of the merchants.

Nature of endorsement

On 16 November in the sixth year, at Westminster, it was agreed that the Chancellor issue a writ under the great seal to the customers of Winchelsea and Sandwich, ordering them to deliver the goods without customs or subsidy unless they have been taken for the use of the king, provided they had not been put up for sale. Proved by the lords of Gloucester, Canterbury, York, the chancellor, Durham, Ely, the Earls of Stafford and Salisbury, Cromwell, Tiptoft and the Keeper of the Privy Seal.

Places mentioned

Edinburgh, Scotland

Zeeland

Holland

Winchelsea, [Sussex]

Sandwich, [Kent].

People mentioned

Robert Preston, merchant of Edinburgh

Gilbert Dun, merchant of Edinburgh

Peter John

Skipper Dan of Holland

[Humphrey of Lancaster], Duke of Gloucester

[Jacqueline of Hainault], Countess of Holland and Duchess of Gloucester

Lieutenant of Dover

customers of Winchelsea

customers of Sandwich

[Henry Chichele], Archbishop of Canterbury

[John Kemp], Archbishop of York, Chancellor

[Thomas Langley], Bishop of Durham

[Philip Morgan], Bishop of Ely

[Humphrey Stafford], Earl of Stafford

[Thomas Montague], Earl of Salisbury

[Ralph Cromwell], Lord Cromwell

[John Tiptoft], Lord Tiptoft

[William Alnwick], Keeper of the Privy Seal.

For a related petition see SC 8/308/15359

• Bronnen Tot de Geschiedenis van den Handel met Engelond, Schotland en Ierland, vol. I, ed. H.J. Smit, (Chetham Society, Vol. X, 1928), p.623 (edition of petition)
• Rotuli Scotiae, vol. II, Ed. D. Macpherson, (Eyre & Strahan, 1819), p.262 (renewed letters of safe-conduct to the petitioners, possibly in connection with their prosecution of this case)