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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Geoffrey Grygg, merchant of London; John Burwelle, merchant of London; Andrew Preston,...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/307/15316
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/307/15316
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1386]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Geoffrey Grygg, merchant of London; John Burwelle, merchant of London; Andrew Preston, merchant of London; William Reynewell, merchant of London; Robert Stanerton, merchant of London; John Lyncolne (Lincoln), merchant of London; John Gedeneye, merchant of London; James de York, merchant of London.
- Name(s)
- Grygg; Burwelle; Preston; Reynewell; Stanerton; Lyncolne (Lincoln); Gedeneye; de York, Geoffrey; John; Andrew; William; Robert; John; John; James
- Addressees
- Chancellor.
- Occupation
- merchant
- Nature of request
- Grygg, Burwelle, Preston, Reynewell, Stanerton, Lyncolne, Gedeneye and York, who recently freighted Lane's ship called 'James' of Bayonne with wheat and other merchandises to go to Lisbon or another port in Portugal and assigned their attorneys to safeguard the merchandises on the same ship, request that whereas Lane and his companions, threatening to throw the attorneys overboard or leave them in Spain among their enemies, sailed instead to Bayonne where Lane procured the mayor and people of the town to arrest the wheat and other merchandises, forcing the attorneys to sell the wheat and other merchandises at half their value and reload the ship with merchandises bought in Bayonne at very dear prices, to the petitioners' loss of 1000 marks, that the King's writ be directed to Lane, Bayonne and Falmouth, who are now at Sandwich with the said ship, to come to London to answer in Chancery concerning these charges.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- London
- Bayonne, [Gascony, France]
- Lisbon, Portugal
- Spain
- Sandwich, [Kent].
- People mentioned
- Peter de la Lane, mariner and merchant of Bayonne
- Sabat de Bayon (Bayonne)
- John Falmouth, shipman.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated on the guard to c. 1386, with reference to CCR 1385-9, p. 196, a 1386 order to mayor and bailiffs of Sandwich to de-arrest and deliver Lane's ship to him, and to p. 225, a 1387 order to arrest Lane, his ship and goods since he freighted his ship with wheat to go to Bordeaux but took it to Bayonne to his own advantage.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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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 Close Rolls, Ric II, vol. III, 1385-1389, (Public Record Office, 1921), p.196 (1386 order to mayor and bailiffs of Sandwich to dearrest and deliver Lane's ship to him) & p.225 (1387 order to arrest Lane, his ship and goods since he freighted his ship with wheat to go to Bordeaux but took it to Bayonne to his own advantage)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9518371/
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