Arnold (Arnaut) de Seynt Martyn (St Martin), merchant of Bayonne. de Seynt Martyn...

Petitioners

Arnold (Arnaut) de Seynt Martyn (St Martin), merchant of Bayonne.

Name(s)

de Seynt Martyn (St Martin), Arnold (Arnaut)

Addressees

King and council.

Occupation

merchant of Bayonne

Nature of request

Arnold de Seynt Martyn, petitioning on his own behalf and that of John de Seint Crik, states that they and other merchants of Bayonne were robbed in Spain before the war, and that the king, in the twenty-second year of his reign, because the King of Spain (sic), who had promised to give them satisfaction, nevertheless did nothing, granted them letters of marque against the Spanish, as can be found from rolls and remembrances of Chancery. The king did not wish this to be pursued during the war. Arnold asks that the ordinance between the people of Bayonne and the messengers of the King of Spain promising compensation, and other documents that he has, might be examined, and that the rolls and remembrances of Chancery might be searched, and that arrest might be granted to Arnold and John until they have full satisfaction for their losses, as the king promised at Roxburgh. Arnold is prepared to inform the king on this, in accordance with the response given to his petition to the parliament at London.

Nature of endorsement

Coram thesaurario.The Earl of Lincoln is to be awaited.Because he who was King of Spain (sic) before the said war is now dead, the present King of Spain is to be written to, making mention of all the aforesaid, for him to do justice on this, as is rightly and in accordance with the agreement made on this with the assent of the late king to be done. And he is to write back to the king with what he thinks should be done on this, at the request of the king.

Places mentioned

Bayonne, [Gascony, France]

Spain (Castile)

Roxburgh, [Roxburghshire, Scotland]

London.

People mentioned

John (Joan) de Seint Crik (St Cric), merchant of Bayonne

William (Guilhem) de Seint Pol (St Pol, St Paul), merchant of Bayonne

John (Joan) de Seygnans (Seignanx), merchant of Bayonne

Raymond (Ramon) de Artiguelong (Artiguelongue), merchant of Bayonne

Vincent de Lagenes, merchant of Bayonne

Peregrine (Pelegrin) de Rau, merchant of Bayonne

[Sancho IV]

King of Spain (King of Castile and Leon)

William (Guilhem) de Saut

[Henry de Lacy], Earl of Lincoln

[Fernando IV]

King of Spain (King of Castile and Leon).

For a related petition from Arnold de St Martin, see SC 8/289/14417

For a closely related petition from Arnold de St Martin, see SC 8/286/14271

For another petition from Arnold de St Martin, see SC 8/175/8741

For a related petition from Arnold de St Martin and others, see SC 8/96/4792

For a related petition, see SC 8/262/13088

For a transcript, see p.61 of PRO 31/7/137

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw I, vol. V, 1302-1307, (Public Record Office, 1908), pp.527-528 (request to the King of Castile and Leon that he will give satisfaction to these merchants)
• The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), 1307, Hilary parliament, appendix, petitions belonging to this parliament and not otherwise recorded, no.3 (calendar of this petition)