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Richard . . . Richard Lords [of parliament?] [This petition is fragmentary] . . ....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/340/16022
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This record is about the Richard . . . Richard Lords [of parliament?] [This petition is fragmentary] . . .... dating from [? c. 1408] 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 8/340/16022
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? c. 1408]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Richard . . .
- Name(s)
- Richard
- Addressees
- Lords [of parliament?]
- Nature of request
- [This petition is fragmentary] . . . said lord the . . . haste that he can . . . assignment for his wages . . . hostages (?) by him in this matter . . . the said petitioner . . . ship called Holy Ghost of Newcastle upon Tyne, [of which] one Robert Gabeford is [master] . . . for one year in which ship were thirty men-at-arms, forty archers, [and forty] mariners, of [which] mariners twenty were well [armed] . . . men-at-arms and archers were taken on the first day of last May by the said Richard and others in his company, of which wages and reward . . . ready to hand, and of the remainder sufficient security for the same time, and it is the case that the said people . . . not . . . thirty . . . because by the grace of God the said people with another ship took seven ships outside Sluys and . . . them . . . May it please the said honoured lords to grant a warrant of the privy seal addressed to the War Treasurers to make payment or sufficient assignment . . . petitioner for his said wages and reward for the said men-at-arms, archers and mariners for the aforesaid thirty days, during which time they were thus in the . . . of the king, as is said above, the which customary wages and reward for the said thirty men-at-arms, forty archers, and forty mariners for the same thirty days . . . amount to £116 15d.
- Nature of endorsement
- . . . seized . . . ship . . . to pay . . . the thirty men-at-arms, forty archers and forty [mariners] . . . being in the king's service for thirty [days] . . . payment . . . or within, in responding . . . the Bishop of . . . the Keeper of the Privy Seal . . . Lord Fou . . . A. Waler . . .
- Places mentioned
- Newcastle upon Tyne, [Northumberland]
- Sluys, [Netherlands].
- People mentioned
- Robert Gabeford, ship's master
- Lord Fou...
- A. Waler....
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- A Robert Gabyfor is mentioned, with other burgesses and merchants of Newcastle upon Tyne, in a document dated 29 November 1408 (CPR 1408-13 pp.39-40) which gives a rough date for this petition.
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9736503/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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