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? No Petitioner named Letter from the Mayor, bailiffs, customs officers and all other...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/300/14955

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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Letter from the Mayor, bailiffs, customs officers and all other... dating from 1386 in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/300/14955
Date
1386
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Letter from the Mayor, bailiffs, customs officers and all other good people of Kingston upon Hull to the council, informing them that John Petreson of Wismar, who is loyal to the King, was taking his ship loaded with herring from Scania to Zealand, when it was driven into the Humber by a storm. He was going to come to Hull and unload his ship, pay the custom and sell his herring there, but John Frankyssh of Holderness arrested the herring, and forced him with threats to deliver it for half what it was worth, as Thomas de Kirkeby, bearer of these letters, will testify. They request a remedy, so that the merchants of York, Hull and the surrounding countryside do not have their goods arrested in Middelburg for this.
Nature of endorsement
[On face] Endorsed bill of the council.[On dorse] To be assigned: Robert de Hilton, sheriff of Yorkshire, William de Holm, John Frankyssh, or two of them, to inquire into whose hands the goods detailed here have come, and to make full restitution to the complainant, who is a friend, as appears from this certification.
Places mentioned
Kingston upon Hull, [East Riding of Yorkshire]
Wismar, [Germany]
Coventry, [Warwickshire]
Southampton, [Hampshire]
Holland
Zealand
Scone (Scania, Schonen), [Sweden]
River Humber
Holderness, [East Riding of Yorkshire]
York
Middelburg, [Netherlands].
People mentioned
Mayor, Bailiffs, Customs Officers and other good people of Kingston upon Hull
Chancellor, Treasurer, Keeper of the Privy Seal and other members of the council
John Petreson of Wismar, ship's master
John Frankyssh of Holderness
Thomas de Kirkeby (Kirkby), burgess of Kingston upon Hull, bearer of these letters
Robert de Hilton, sheriff of Yorkshire
William de Holm.
Note
Letter dated 4 December 10 Richard II (1386).CPR 1385-9, p.264 is dated 13 December 1386, and is clearly in response.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Chancery Files 465.
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Subjects
Topics
Trade and commerce
Europe and Russia
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. III, 1385-1389, (Public Record Office, 1900), p.264 (appointment of Robert de Hilton, William de Holm and John Frankyssh to make restitution to John Petreson of his goods and merchandise)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9518158/

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