Catalogue description Petitioners: Arnaud de Luke and William Arnaud de Portan, merchants of Gascony. ...

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Details of SC 8/168/8400
Reference: SC 8/168/8400
Description:
Petitioners: Arnaud de Luke and William Arnaud de Portan, merchants of Gascony.
Name(s): de Luke; de Portan, Arnaud; William Arnaud
Addressees: King and Council.
Occupation: merchants of Gascony
Nature of request: The petitioners state that they loaded a ship with wine in Bordeaux, bound for Hull, but the ship was attacked in the Humber off Ravenser by men of Newcastle, and the ship and goods were stolen. They brought an assize of oyer and terminer before Doncastre and Hopton, by which Brettevill, Musgrave and others were outlawed, but the king has since granted them pardon of this outlawry. The petitioners thus have no means of recovering their ship and cargo, and request remedy.
Nature of endorsement: [on face] A transcript of the charter of outlawry is attached to this bill.[on dorse, partially illegible] The king's charter does not take away their suit for the trespass or prevent them from obtaining justice on this if they sue. And because John de Doncastre has recorded that the process was had before the court, all those named were guilty of trespass, and the merchants are to have writs to bring the records before the king, who will do right.
Places mentioned: Gascony, [France]; Bordeaux, [Guyenne, France]; Kingston upon Hull, [East Riding of Yorkshire]; River Humber; Ravenser, [East Riding of Yorkshire]; Newcastle upon Tyne, [Northumberland].
People mentioned: John de Doncastre (Doncaster), justice; Adam de Hopton, justice; John de Brettevill; Robert de Musgrave.
Note: A response to a petition from these merchants regarding this attack is enrolled on the record of the York parliament of Michaelmas 1318. This is clearly the same attack, and although the text given there differs slightly from that given on the dorse of this petition, it is evidently this petition.
Date: [1318]
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Documents Illustrative of English History in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, selected from the Records of the Department of the Queen's Remembrancer of the Exchequer, Ed. H. Cole, (Record Commission, 1844), p.29 (response to this petition, enrolled on parliament roll)

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