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Richard de Cokefeld (Cockfield), brother and heir of Sir Henry de Cokefeld, knight....

Catalogue reference: SC 8/40/1965

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This record is about the Richard de Cokefeld (Cockfield), brother and heir of Sir Henry de Cokefeld, knight.... dating from [1324] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/40/1965
Date
[1324]
Description
Petitioners
Richard de Cokefeld (Cockfield), brother and heir of Sir Henry de Cokefeld, knight.
Name(s)
de Cokefeld (Cockfield), Richard
Addressees
King
Nature of request
Cokefeld states that he is grievously prosecuted by many pleas in the king's court and elsewhere for many debts owed by his brother when he died and of their father. The sheriff has distrained him and continues to distrain him for the debt so that he is so impoverished that he has nothing to live. He requests that the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer will make allowance in the debts for three bills of the Wardrobe for £15, the transcripts being attached to this petition, and the king will grant an attermination of the remaining debt at 40s. per annum.
Nature of endorsement
Coram domino rege.
People mentioned
Henry de Cokefeld (Cockfield), brother of the petitioner
Simon de Cokelfeld (Cockfield), father of the petitioner.
Note
The petition can be dated to 1324 by the response made to the petition ordering the treasurer and barons to allow the £15 and to do what they see fit concerning the attermination (CCR 1323-7, p.83).
Related material

For the copy of bills attached to the petition see SC 8/40/1966

For another petition by the same petitioner, see SC 8/40/1964

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 1413
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. IV, 1323-1327, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.83 (writ to the treasurer and barons to allow the £15 and to do what they see fit for the attermination)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062169/

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