Conrad Fynk, Gerard Clambek and Warner Heynson, merchants of Almaine and of the Hanse....

Petitioners

Conrad Fynk, Gerard Clambek and Warner Heynson, merchants of Almaine and of the Hanse.

Name(s)

Fynk; Clambek; Heynson, Conrad; Gerard; Warner

Addressees

Chancellor.

Nature of request

Conrad Fynk, Gerard Clambek and Warner Heynson, merchants of Almaine and of the Hanse, state that on 28 January last they were sailing with a ship loaded with 40 lasts of barrels of fresh herring, belonging to them and to other merchants, to Southampton, to sell their herring there, when at the Isle of Wight two ships of Plymouth, belonging to Cok Wille and to Richard Rawe, came, and wrongfully took their ship and herring to Weymouth, where the herring was sold for £1 a last less than it would have been worth at Southampton. The money for 21 lasts was in the hands of John Golde of Weymouth: he delivered it to John Ravenser by virtue of two writs. The merchants have received 7 lasts except for one barrel, and the master has received 4 lasts for his freight. The council has promised them full restitution of their goods if they could bring letters from the Duke of Guelders and from other towns: they have brought letters from the Duke, from Lubeck, from Delbruck, from Dordrecht and from Kampen, certifying that the goods are theirs, but they have had no deliverance. They request a remedy, so that they can have restitution of their money.

Nature of endorsement

Be it remembered that at the octave of Trinity in the present year, because the aforesaid Conrad as attorney and proctor of the aforesaid Gerard Clambek and Withman Claiston produced various letters of testimony before the council, testifying that the aforesaid goods and chattels should of right belong to the aforesaid merchants, it was therefore adjudged and decreed by the council that £105 which are in the hands of the aforesaid John Ravenser should be delivered in full to the said merchants. Whereupon the same John, at the command of the venerable father William de Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester and Chancellor of England, delivered those £105 to the aforesaid Conrad.

Places mentioned

Almaine (Germany)

Kampen, [Germany]

Lubeck, [Germany]

Dordrecht, [Netherlands]

Holland

Southampton, [Hampshire]

Isle of Wight, [Hampshire]

Plymouth, [Devon]

Weymouth, [Dorset]

Delbruck, [Germany]

Flanders

France.

People mentioned

William de Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester, Chancellor of England

Withman Claiston

Hubert Boman (Bowman)

Peter Scale of Dordrecht

Alard Henrison, burgess of Kampen

Cok Wille

Richard Rawe of Plymouth

John Golde (Gold) of Weymouth

John Ravenser, clerk

[William I], Duke of Guelders.

For a duplicate of this petition, see SC 8/302/15067

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Ric II, vol. III, 1385-1389, (Public Record Office, 1921), p.389 (order to the bailiffs of Weymouth to deliver to John Golde £50 concerned in that case)
• Calendar of Close Rolls, Ric II, vol. IV, 1389-1392, (Public Record Office, 1923), p.177 (receipt and acquittance for this £105)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. III, 1385-1389, (Public Record Office, 1900), p.394 (commission to inquire into a complaint by Conrad Fynk of ill-treatment by English sailors)
• Select Cases before the King's Council, 1243-1482, Ed. I.S. Leadam and J.F. Baldwin, (Selden Society, vol. XXXV, 1918), pp.76-7 (full edition and translation of petition) & pp.xcviii-c (discussion of case)