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Merchants? of London. Merchants? of London [This petition is fragmentary] . . . in...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/340/16032

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This record is about the Merchants? of London. Merchants? of London [This petition is fragmentary] . . . in... dating from [? c. 1470-? c. 1510] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/340/16032
Date
[? c. 1470-? c. 1510]
Description
Petitioners
Merchants? of London.
Occupation
Merchants? of London
Nature of request
[This petition is fragmentary] . . . in your city of London that among other privileges granted to them by your noble progenitors . . . for any debt for which they are not a pledge or the principal debtor, nor for any trespass done or to be done by . . . notwithstanding which, now of late George Lamte, one of the said fellowship, coming with merchandise from beyond the . . . Simon Baxter and others of Lynn, and within an hour after the arrest at a court of piepowder as it is said . . . fellowship nor friends may speak with him . . . but, as it is said, it is claimed by the same Baxter and the rest that . . . cause of arrest of a ship there last August, that belonged to the said Baxter and others of Lynn, and . . . done to him and his subjects . . . was said there, of the which arrest the said George and his . . . said ship to have been disarrested and . . . was bound and became pledge for half a ship . . . merchandise to the . . . the said Baxter does to be kept there . . . under your great seal of . . . to the bailiff of the liberty of the . . . of Lynn . . . the body of the . . . and process made against him in that part . . . pain . . . and . . . February to answer to the aforesaid . . . town . . . the merchants . . . with their merchandise which . . . to be . . . liberties granted to them by your . . .
Nature of endorsement
[An illegible note at the foot of the face; none on dorse]
Places mentioned
London
King's Lynn, [Norfolk].
People mentioned
George Lamte
Simon Baxter of King's Lynn.
Note
Tentatively dated on the basis of the hand.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9736513/

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