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Juetta Bilcok (Bilcock), widow of John Bilcok Bilcok (Bilcock) Juetta King and council...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/34/1669

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This record is about the Juetta Bilcok (Bilcock), widow of John Bilcok Bilcok (Bilcock) Juetta King and council... dating from [c. 1361] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/34/1669
Date
[c. 1361]
Description
Petitioners
Juetta Bilcok (Bilcock), widow of John Bilcok
Name(s)
Bilcok (Bilcock), Juetta
Addressees
King and council
Nature of request
Bilcok shows that when she was unmarried she left the service of Sporle, then keeper of the wardrobe of Burgherssh and went from London to Derbyshire taking with her certain goods and chattels to the value of 20 marks. In the town came Rome, Cook, Sele and Placiden and took her goods by colour of suspicion and imprisoned her for five days. She was delivered from prison and commanded to bring letters testimonial of her conversation under the seal of the mayor of London and other good men. Afterwards she had letters under the seal of the mayor and Sporle to the bailiffs and sergeants, and demanded the livery and restitution of the goods. Cook demanded that she give to him and their companions 40s. and a general acquittance for delivery of the goods, and they have detained the goods to her great wrong and damage. She has sued for writs to have execution of the goods and she has not been able to have remedy. She requests remedy.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
London
Derbyshire
Derby, [Derbyshire]
People mentioned
John Bilcok (Bilcock), husband of the petitioner
William Sporle, keeper of the Wardrobe of Bartholomew Burgherssh the son
Bartholomew Burgherssh the son
Ellis de Rome, sergeant of the town of Derby
William Cook, Bailiff
William Sele
John Placiden, sergeant
John Wroth, mayor of London
Note
The petition must date to around 1361 for the petition itself states that Juetta had gone to Derby in 1360 (34 Edw. III), and John Wroth was mayor of London in 1360. It is unlikely that Juetta's complaint would postdate this by long.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 384
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061866/

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