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William Elys (Ellis) of Great Yarmouth. Elys (Ellis) William King and council. Elys...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/14/660
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/14/660
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1377]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- William Elys (Ellis) of Great Yarmouth.
- Name(s)
- Elys (Ellis), William
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Elys complains that whereas he was accused by Botild and Coupere at the last parliament held at Westminster in 51 Edward III after the feast of St George of taking goods from a Cog of Pruse and a Scottish ship by colour of his office as deputy to Richard Lyons, farmer of the petty customs, and then imprisoned in the Tower of London. In parliament it was ordered that the matter be enquired into by which he was acquitted. Elys requests that Botild and Cowper be made to come and answer him, and make satisfaction for their accusations according to the statute.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Great Yarmouth, [Norfolk]
- Westminster
- Lowestoft, [Suffolk]
- Kyrkelerode (Kirkley Road), [Suffolk]
- London
- Tower of London, London.
- People mentioned
- John Botild of Lowestoft
- William Coupere (Cooper) of Lowestoft
- Richard Lyons, farmer of the petty customs
- Henry Luse, master of a Cog of Pruse
- William Fauxhid, merchant of Scotland
- [William Ufford], Earl of Suffolk
- [Henry] de Percy, [Earl of Northumberland].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- This seems to date to early in the reign of Richard II, as it clearly refers to a parliament in the previous reign of Edward III. As an earlier petition was submitted in the parliament of January 1377, which was not answered, and Elys was acquitted and pardoned in April 1377, it is unlikely that this petition dates from far beyond the first parliament or so of the new reign (Rot. Parl., vol. II, pp.374b-375a, CPR 1374-7, p.455). See, however, PROME, parliament of January-March 1377, appendix, no. 8.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For an earlier related petition by Lyons and Elys see SC 8/14/662
For a duplicate of this petition with an endorsement see SC 8/14/661
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Parliamentary Petition 3149
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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- Topics
- Trade and commerce
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
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- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. XVI, 1374-1377, (Public Record Office, 1916), p.455 (acquittance and pardon of Elys)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.374b-375a (edition of an earlier related as an unanswered common petition on parliament roll)
- The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), parliament of January-March 1377, appendix, no. 8 (summary of related petitions)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060801/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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