Not specified Chancellor. The petition requests four sets of letters patent:1) To...

Petitioners

Not specified

Addressees

Chancellor.

Nature of request

The petition requests four sets of letters patent:1) To Laurence de Alverthorp and Richard Werley to arrest all ships between Lynn and Berwick with a tonnage of 40 tons and above, and have then come to Plymouth by 1 May, and to arrest sufficient mariners for them; and also to have all the newly-built barges between Lynn and Berwick come to Sandwich as swiftly as possible, with a suitable compliment of sailors, men-at-arms and archers.2) To Thomas Hunt, clerk, and Richard Jymeworth, to arrest all ships and barges between Lynn and Sandwich.3) To Robert de Woburn to arrest all ships of a tonnage of 30 tons and above between Hastings and Melcombe Regis.4) To James ...reverbyn and John Wrenche to arrest all ships of a tonnage of 24 tons and above between Chester and Melcombe Regis.

Nature of endorsement

[On face] By A de Hertyngdon. To my lord the Chancellor.[None on dorse]

Places mentioned

Plymouth, [Devon]

King's Lynn, [Norfolk]

Berwick-upon-Tweed, [Northumberland]

Sandwich, [Kent]

Hastings, [Sussex]

Melcombe Regis, [Dorset]

West Cestre (Chester), [Cheshire].

People mentioned

Adam de Hertyngdon

Laurence de Alverthorp

Richard Werley

Thomas Hunt, clerk

Richard Jymeworth

Robert de Woburn

James [...]reverbyn

John Wrenche.

For a related petition see SC 8/298/14856