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Godkin de Revle (Revel), merchant of Almaine. de Revle (Revel) Godkin King merchant...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/16/799

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This record is about the Godkin de Revle (Revel), merchant of Almaine. de Revle (Revel) Godkin King merchant... dating from [1328] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/16/799
Date
[1328]
Description
Petitioners
Godkin de Revle (Revel), merchant of Almaine.
Name(s)
de Revle (Revel), Godkin
Addressees
King
Occupation
merchant of Almaine
Nature of request
Godkin de Revle, merchant of Almaine, states that the king owes him, by his letters of obligation sealed with the cocket, £172 11s. 4d., which he lent him to be paid last Easter, and requests that he send writs to the collectors of the customs in his port of Boston, to allow him that sum in the next customs on wools and other merchandise to be sent by him out of the same port, notwithstanding any ordinance or command to the contrary.
Nature of endorsement
A writ of Chancery is to be sent, according to the form of the petition, to the collectors of the custom in the same place, that, when they have seen the letters patent, if they find that such a sum of money is owed to him for such a reason, they are to allow it to him in the custom on wools, hides and woolfells to be embarked by him in the same port to be carried overseas, receiving from him the said letters patent and his letters of acquittance etc.
Places mentioned
Aleman (Germany)
Seint Botulph (Boston), [Lincolnshire].
Note
CCR 1327-30 pp.343-4 is dated at Salisbury, 25 October 1328. CCR 1327-30 p.331 is dated at Salisbury 26 October 1328.
Related material

For a duplicate of SC 8/69/3433, with slight differences to the endorsement, see SC 8/69/3436

For a similar petition from another merchant of Almaine, see SC 8/16/798

For a similar petition from another merchant, see SC 8/17/804

For a similar contemporary petition from the same petitioner and another merchant, see SC 8/69/3433

For another petition from the same petitioner, see SC 8/69/3434

For a similar petition from the same petitioner, see SC 8/16/797

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 6854
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. I, 1327-1330, (Public Record Office, 1896), pp.343-4 (orders to allow the petitioner the amount of his loan, as specified in the endorsement) & 331 (similar vacated orders for the petitioner and another merchant)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060940/

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