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Robert Coksid' (Cockside) of Durham, merchant; Robert de Gretewych of Durham, merchant....

Catalogue reference: SC 8/40/1962

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SC 8/40/1962
Date
[1337]
Description
Petitioners
Robert Coksid' (Cockside) of Durham, merchant; Robert de Gretewych of Durham, merchant.
Name(s)
Coksid' (Cockside); de Gretewych, Robert; Robert
Addressees
King and council
Occupation
merchant
Nature of request
The petitioners state that in times of peace between England and Flanders they sent their servants to Flanders to sell wool. They were suddenly arrested them and still detains them and cloth and other merchandise that the servants bought there at the suit of Fauvale, alleging that the king owed him a sum of money. They request remedy be made to them.1)
Nature of endorsement
Coram rege et magno consilio.2) Let it be ordered to the bishop of Durham by a writ containing the effect of this petition that he enquire if the arrest was made as the petition supposes, and enquiring of the full details of the arrest, and of the value of the goods and of other articles. And when the inquisition is returned, and the arrest is found to have been made and the sea passage is close as it is now, then they should have arrest upon the countrymen of those who made the arrest, but it not extend to the goods of merchants residing in England or have free tenements in England. And if the passage is open then let it be ordered to the lords to do justice and otherwise follow the ancient course.
Places mentioned
Durham
Flanders [Belgium].
People mentioned
William Coksid (Cockside), servant of the petitioners
Richard de Lyndeseye (Lindsey), servant of the petitioners
Count of Flanders
Simon Fauvale.
Note
The petition can be dated to 1337 as the inquisition ordered in the response was held on 19 May 1337 (CIM 1307-49, no.1593)
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 1420
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous, vol. II, Edw II - 22 Edw III, (Public Record Office, 1916), no.1593 (writ and inquisition into the matter)
  • Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), pp.166-8 (no.125) (full edition of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062166/

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