Catalogue description Petitioners: Gunsalo (Gonzalo) Moro (Maurus), doctor and ambassador of the King of...

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Details of SC 8/179/8931
Reference: SC 8/179/8931
Description:
Petitioners: Gunsalo (Gonzalo) Moro (Maurus), doctor and ambassador of the King of Castile.
Name(s): Moro (Maurus), Gunsalo (Gonzalo)
Addressees: King.
Occupation: doctor; ambassador of the King of Castile
Nature of request: [This petition is badly faded and stained.]The Castilian ambassador requests action regarding attacks on Castilian merchants and their ships by various English ships and their masters, despite agreements between the two countries.
Nature of endorsement: [Long endorsement detailing negotiations between the council and the Castilian embassy.]Order to summon Dartmouth and others to explain their actions.Before the council 4 July 4 [Henry IV]: Chancellor; Treasurer; Bishop of Rochester; Keeper of the Privy Seal; H. Waterton; J. Cheyne; A. Savage.
Places mentioned: Castile, [Spain]; Spain; Flanders; Dartmouth, [Devon]; Poole, [Dorset]; Kingswear, [Devon]; London; Chichester, [Sussex].
People mentioned: [Henry III], King of Castile; [Robert] Bulte (Bolt) of Dartmouth, ship's master; Henry Bartelot; Henry Pay of Poole; William Norman of Kingswear; John Lancaster; John Prynce of Chichester; Bishop of Rochester; [Hugh] Waterton; [John] Cheyne; [Arnold] Savage.
Note: Moro's embassy took place in the reign of Henry IV, thus identifying the date in the endorsement as 4 July 1403. Moro appears to have made a number of complaints regarding problems with shipping and trade with Castile during this period, many of which appear on the patent and close rolls of this period.
Date: [1403]
Related material:

For another petition from the same ambassador, see SC 8/181/9011
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Calendar of Close Rolls, Hen IV, vol. III, 1405-1409, (Public Record Office, 1931), pp.108, 203, 303 (orders relating to complaints by Moro on these or similar matters)

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