William Elys (Ellis) of Great Yarmouth. Elys (Ellis) William King and council. Elys...

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].

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

Topics

Trade and commerce

• 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)