Catalogue description Petitioners: Hugh Williamsone (Williamson, Williemsz), master of the ship called the...

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Details of SC 8/229/11450
Reference: SC 8/229/11450
Description:
Petitioners: Hugh Williamsone (Williamson, Williemsz), master of the ship called the Meyavyn of Zierikzee in Zeeland.
Name(s): Williamsone (Williamson, Williemsz), Hugh
Addressees: King.
Occupation: master of the ship called the Meyavyn of Zierikzee in Zeeland
Nature of request: Williamsone requests that letters be granted directed to his officers and ministers in Dover to order Plebel and others to deliver his ship and merchandises which he was shipping from Zeeland to Southampton, and which they seized off Sandwich and took to Dover.
Nature of endorsement: [None].
Places mentioned: Zelese (Zierikzee), Zeeland, [Netherlands]; Southampton, [Hampshire]; Sandwich, [Kent]; Dover, [Kent].
People mentioned: William Plebel; Thomas Taverner; Henry Holand (Holland); Thomas Bledylaw; Stephen Henne of Dover; Duke of Albret.
Note: The petition is speculatively dated to? c. 1403 in accordance with the dating given in the guard note. The hand of the petition is consistent with a petition of this date, and many of the petitions in this file date to about this date.
Date: [? c. 1403]
Related material:

For a petition by a different ship's master complaining of the seizure of his ship by the same individuals, see SC 8/230/11456
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: Chancery Files 528.
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: French
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Bronnen Tot de Geschiedenis van den Handel met Engelond, Schotland en Ierland, vol. I, ed. H.J. Smit, (Chetham Society, Vol. X, 1928), pp.488-9 (edition of petition)

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