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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 (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/300/14955
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1386
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Description (What the record is about)
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- 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.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Letter dated 4 December 10 Richard II (1386).CPR 1385-9, p.264 is dated 13 December 1386, and is clearly in response.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Chancery Files 465.
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- 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)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9518158/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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