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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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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/40/1962
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1337]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- 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.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- 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)
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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 1420
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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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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
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- 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)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062166/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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