Henry Gare, burgess of Norwich. Gare Henry King. burgess of Norwich Gare requests...

Petitioners

Henry Gare, burgess of Norwich.

Name(s)

Gare, Henry

Addressees

King.

Occupation

burgess of Norwich

Nature of request

Gare requests that the bailiffs of Lynn and Hull be ordered by writ to arrest the goods and chattels of men of Norway until his complaint can be proved. When Gare arrived by ship at 'Skaroldishund' on the Sunday after Martinmas last, his ship was wrecked but the goods in it (to the value of £200) and the men onboard landed safely, but on that same day the King of Norway's bailiffs and men robbed his men of the same goods. His men went to the King of Norway and asked that he make restitution of the goods but he refused.

Nature of endorsement

He is to have a writ in Chancery to the King of Norway in accordance with his petition that he should have justice done to him.

Places mentioned

Norwich, Norfolk

Skaroldishund [unidentified], Norway

Len (King's Lynn), Norfolk

Kingston-upon-Hull, [East Riding of Yorkshire].

People mentioned

[Haakon V Magnusson], King of Norway.

For a later related petition see SC 8/168/8358

• Memoranda de Parliamento, or Records of the Parliament holden at Westminster, 25 Edw I, Ed. F.W. Maitland, (Rolls Series, vol. XCVIII, 1893), p.102 (no.174) (Latin summary of this or related petition on Parliament Roll)
• The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), roll 12, appendix, no.180 (full edition and translation of petition)