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Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Merchants of the Hanse of Germany. King. The petitioners request the restoration...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/222/11070
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This record is about the Merchants of the Hanse of Germany. King. The petitioners request the restoration... dating from [1383] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/222/11070
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1383]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Merchants of the Hanse of Germany.
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- The petitioners request the restoration of their ship and goods, and the return of the sums given as surety, following the arrest of their ship by the bailiffs of Great Yarmouth. They state that a small boat carrying two people allegedly became caught in their mooring cable, and those of other ships, as they slept in their ship moored in the harbour at Great Yarmouth. The men drowned, and the bailiffs seized their ship as a deodand, as they are strangers and ignorant of local customs.
- Nature of endorsement
- This matter is determined in parliament that neither the ship nor the cable ought to be adjudged deodand nor forfeit for this reason, and that the ship, its fittings and goods be restored to the merchants, and they and their mainpernors be discharged their surety in the chancery, the mainprise being cancelled in the rolls, and that it not be set amongst the estreats of chancery.
- Places mentioned
- Almaigne (Germany)
- Eastland (Germany)
- Great Yarmouth, [Norfolk].
- People mentioned
- Bailiffs of Great Yarmouth.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- An order to the bailiffs to restore the ship, its gear and its cargo to the petitioners was issued on 11 February 1383.
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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)
- French
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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, Ric II, vol. II, 1381-1385, (Public Record Office, 1920), p.286 (resultant order to the bailiffs to make restoration)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9334630/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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