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Robert atte Grene (Green), Nicholas le Coisester and John de Westone (Weston), merchants....

Catalogue reference: SC 8/238/11893

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This record is about the Robert atte Grene (Green), Nicholas le Coisester and John de Westone (Weston), merchants.... dating from [? 1345] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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SC 8/238/11893
Date
[? 1345]
Description
Petitioners
Robert atte Grene (Green), Nicholas le Coisester and John de Westone (Weston), merchants.
Name(s)
Grene (Green); Coisester; de Westone (Weston), Robert; Nicholas; John
Addressees
King and council.
Occupation
merchants
Nature of request
Robert atte Grene, Nicholas le Coisester and John de Westone, merchants, state that an arrest was adjudged to them in full parliament against the men of the power of France, in compensation for good stolen from them at the mouth of the Seine by John de Seint Agace and other malefactors from France, Normandy and Scotland. They were immediately attached and arrested at Honfleur, and process begun against them, but, despite the command of Philip de Valois to the baillifs of Rouen and Caen, who held the goods, they were delivered to the malefactors, and the merchants have never been able to have recovery since. They ask that their writs might be renewed and that they might have execution of the arrest, according to the tenor of their writs close.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
France
River Seine, [France]
Normandy, [France]
Scotland
Honfleur, [Normandy, France]
Rouen, [Normandy, France]
Caen, [Normandy, France].
People mentioned
John de Seint Agace (St Agatha)
Philip [VI] de Valois, [King of France]
John de France, son of Philip VI of France.
Related material

For instructions to the Chancellor to provide a suitable remedy for this matter, see no.16646 of C 81/302

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/C9335457/

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