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Peter (Peir) de Seint Johan (St John), merchant of Bayonne. de Seint Johan (St John)...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/238/11892A

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Reference
SC 8/238/11892A
Date
[1342]
Description
Petitioners
Peter (Peir) de Seint Johan (St John), merchant of Bayonne.
Name(s)
de Seint Johan (St John), Peter (Peir)
Addressees
King and council.
Occupation
merchant of Bayonne
Nature of request
Peter de Seint Johan states that he has sued to the King and council for three years to have compensation for a robbery committed against him at sea in the port of Dartmouth, on Trinity Sunday five years ago, by John Badding, Roger Kildar, and other malefactors of Winchelsea, and that although the King has often written to the Earl of Huntingdon, Constable of Dover and Warden of the Cinque Ports, asking him to give Peter justice and to imprison the malefactors in Dover castle and seize their goods until Peter was compensated, nothing has been done, and the malefactors are free on mainprise. The King lately ordered him again at London, but as soon as he left the city, the Bailiff of Winchelsea and John Seman, one of the mainpernors, sued a writ to the Constable to abandon the business. He requests a letter under the privy seal to the Constable to imprison the malefactors and their mainpernors in Dover castle, and to take their goods into the King's hand, and to take the franchises of Winchelsea into the King's hand for disobedience, until satisfaction has been made to him.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Bayonne, [Gascony, France]
Dartmouth, [Devon]
London
Winchelsea, [Sussex]
Bordeaux, [Guyenne, France]
Dover, [Kent]
Cinque Ports.
People mentioned
John Badding of Winchelsea
Roger Kildar of Winchelsea
[William de Clinton], Earl of Huntingdon, Constable of Dover and Warden of the Cinque Ports
Henry Faich of Winchelsea
John Seman (Seaman) of Winchelsea
Bailiff of Winchelsea
Peter (Peir) de Pymane, Admiral of the fleet of Bayonne.
Note
From notes on the guard, this petition was formerly enclosed with no.14466 of C 81/280, dated 4 December 15 Edward III (1341). SC 8/238/11892B, which is dated 30 September, 16 Edward III (1342), seems to have been added to the collection later and not to be directly related. No.15010 of C 81/286, also in response to a petition where the petitioner says that he has sued for three years, is dated 27 September 16 Edward III.
Related material

For a writ sent on this matter, probably as a result of a related petition, see SC 8/238/11892B

For instructions to the Chancellor to provide a remedy for this matter, see no.14466 of C 81/280

For another petition on the same subject from the same petitioner, and instructions given to the Chancellor as a result of that petition, see nos. 15009 & 15010 of C 81/286

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9335455/

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