Catalogue description Short title: Merchant Adventurers v Essellborne. Plaintiffs: governor and assistants and...

Short title: Merchant Adventurers v Essellborne.

Plaintiffs: governor and assistants and fellowship of the Merchant Adventurers Company of London.

Defendants: John Essellborne merchant, John Martin Elkin merchant, David de Barry merchant, James West merchant, John Scottoway merchant, Robert Niblett merchant, Richard Anderson merchant, Thomas Rous merchant, William Palmer merchant, Benjamin Palmer merchant, John Gulick merchant, John Elscott merchant, James Crafford merchant, Arthur Scollar merchant, John Foxwell merchant, Thomas Townesend merchant, Thomas Crispin merchant, Thomas Hunt merchant, Thomas Heath the younger merchant, Matthew How merchant, George Hodder the younger merchant, Francis Snow merchant, Edward Hodder merchant, Joseph Hodder merchant, Robert Lile merchant, William How merchant, James Rallyard merchant, Henry Martin merchant, David Gibson merchant, John Rebow merchant, Edward Feedam merchant, Thomas Bowchen (alias Thomas Bowcher) merchant, Edward Quilter merchant, Dericke Rattine, Henry Shener merchant, Paul Bendix merchant, Evert Hillers merchant, Henry Cramer merchant, Harman Voglesang merchant, Wilkin Voglesang merchant, John Johnson merchant, Egbert Caster merchant, Huybert Dunbado merchant and Ary Rowlands merchant.

Subject: The plaintiffs had the sole privilege of trading with various places granted by letters patent since 1406. They claimed that the defendants were interlopers who had combined with foreign merchants to interrupt and disturb their trading privilege. Several types of woollen cloth mentioned: interests in Flanders, the Low Countries; Breconshire, Wales; Holland, the Low Countries; York, Yorkshire; Hull, Yorkshire; Leeds, Yorkshire; Colchester, Essex; Exeter, Devon; Zealand, the Low Countries; Brabant, the Low Countries; Friesland, the Low Countries; Lothbury, London; Royal Exchange, London; and Flanders Hall, London.

Document type: answer only.