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Burgesses, mayor and commons of Grimsby. King. Letter from the burgesses, mayor and...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/219/10945
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/219/10945
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1311
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Burgesses, mayor and commons of Grimsby.
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- Letter from the burgesses, mayor and commons of Grimsby to King Edward [II], dated 17 January 1311, complaining of a lack of progress in receiving justice for an attack at sea on a ship belonging to Toller, a burgess of Grimsby, by Evel and Arnold the Yonge and others of Westfale, and the theft of certain goods. No satisfaction has been received from the attackers or the Archbishop of Cologne. They request a suitable remedy for the recovery of William Toller's goods and his damages.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Grimsby, [Lincolnshire]
- Eastland
- Westfale [unidentified]
- Fulstow Marsh, [Lincolnshire].
- People mentioned
- William Toller, burgess of Grimsby
- Evel the Yonge of Westfale
- Arnold [the Yonge], brother of Evel the Yonge
- [Heinrich II von Virneburg], Archbishop of Cologne
- Robert Cronay
- Richard Keling
- Robert Alby of Grimsby
- Peter Schefe
- Henry Ballinger
- William Fattig
- William de Hedon
- Richard Pak
- John de Yerthmue (Yarmouth)
- Peter de Neuton (Newton)
- Richard Reynald
- Thomas FitzEve of Fulstow Marsh.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated in the dating clause to 17 January 1311. The petition, and the surviving enrolments, all refer to a town of 'Westfale', of which the Archbishop of Cologne was lord. The name is likely to refer to the region of Westphalia, the area around Cologne ruled by the Archbishop. However, no town of that name seems to have existed, and it is not on the coast, although the attackers may have sailed up the Rhine from Cologne or another town in the region.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- Latin
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. I, 1307-1313, (Public Record Office, 1892), p.325 (request to the bailiffs of Westfale to hear Toller's complaint) & p.361 (order to the sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk to arrest goods of the men of Westfale, reciting terms of this complaint)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9334504/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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