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... of Fray, attorney of Thomas Berwick, Alan of the Chambre and Robert Arderne....

Catalogue reference: SC 8/308/15359

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Reference
SC 8/308/15359
Date
[c. 1428]
Description
Petitioners
... of Fray, attorney of Thomas Berwick, Alan of the Chambre and Robert Arderne.
Name(s)
Fray
Addressees
Duke of Gloucester, keeper.
Occupation
attorney of Thomas Berwick, Alan of the Chambre and Robert Arderne
Nature of request
Fray requests that the Duke command the treasurer and searchers of Calais to deliver to him the merchandises from a ship of Zeeland which was driven to Calais where it and all its goods were arrested. Berwick, Chambre and Arderne loaded a ship of Zeeland with wool and other merchandises at Edinburgh last July. The ship, bound for Middleburgh, was captured at sea by men of the Duchess of Holland and the merchandises taken to Winchelsea and Sandwich, and upon his clients' petition to the King and council the customers of Winchelsea and Sandwich were ordered to deliver the same to them without custom, whereupon the merchants loaded the merchandises onto two ships to send to Middleburgh. One ship went to Zeeland but the other was driven to Calais.
Nature of endorsement
[On 1 March in the 6th year at Westminster].
Places mentioned
Scotland
Bruges, Flanders, [Belgium]
Edinburgh, Scotland
Zeeland
Middleburgh, Zeeland, [Netherlands]
Holland
Winchelsea, [Sussex]
Sandwich, [Kent]
Calais, [France]
[Westminster].
People mentioned
[Humphrey of Lancaster], Duke of Gloucester, keeper
Thomas Berwyk (Berwick), merchant of Scotland
Alan of the Chambre, merchant of Scotland
Robert Arderne, merchant of Scotland
Jacob Mytteney
[Jacqueline of Hainault], Duchess of Holland.
Note
The petition dates to after 16 November 1427, the date of the endorsement to the petition mentioned within (SC 8/217/10819). The endorsement is now illegible but printed in Bain, vol. IV, no.1014.
Related material

For the petition mentioned within see SC 8/217/10819

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Documents Relating to Scotland, vol. IV, 1357-1509, Ed. J. Bain, (Her Majesty's General Register House, 1888), no.1014 (summary of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9528956/

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