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Olard Pierssone, master of a ship called the Pelgryn of Middelburg. Pierssone Olard...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/230/11456

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This record is about the Olard Pierssone, master of a ship called the Pelgryn of Middelburg. Pierssone Olard... dating from [? c. 1403] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/230/11456
Date
[? c. 1403]
Description
Petitioners
Olard Pierssone, master of a ship called the Pelgryn of Middelburg.
Name(s)
Pierssone, Olard
Addressees
King.
Occupation
master of a ship called the Pelgryn of Middelburg
Nature of request
Pierssone requests that letters be granted directed to his officers and ministers in Dover to order Plebel and others to deliver his ship and merchandises which he was shipping from Middelburg to Southampton or Dartmouth, and which they seized off Sandwich and took to Dover.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Middelburg, [Netherlands]
Southampton, [Hampshire]
Dartmouth, [Devon]
Dover, [Kent].
People mentioned
Peter Jacobessone
William Plebel of Dover
Thomas Taverner of Dover
Henry Holand (Holland) of Dover
Thomas Bledylawe of Dover
Stephen Henne of Dover
Duke of Albret.
Note
The petition is speculatively dated to? c. 1403 in accordance with the dating given in the guard note. The hand of the petition is consistent with a petition of this date, and many of the petitions in this file date to about this date.
Related material

For a petition by a different ship's master complaining of the seizure of his ship by the same individuals, see SC 8/230/11456

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Chancery Files 528.
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9335015/

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