John Lovekyn, citizen of London. Lovekyn John King and council. citizen of London...

Petitioners

John Lovekyn, citizen of London.

Name(s)

Lovekyn, John

Addressees

King and council.

Occupation

citizen of London

Nature of request

John Lovekyn states that on the Saturday before St Luke, in the king's seventh year, a number of men from Great Yarmouth came to Little Yarmouth with force and arms, and carried off to Great Yarmouth several ships moored at his quay, together with herring bought by him. He requests that justices be assigned by the king and council to hear and determine this trespass, and that a due remedy might be provided.

Nature of endorsement

[None]

Places mentioned

London

Petite Jernemuth (Little Yarmouth), Suffolk

Grant Jernemuth (Great Yarmouth), Norfolk.

People mentioned

John Perbroun

Robert de Drayton

Thomas de Drayton, son of Robert de Drayton

Henry Randolf (Randolph)

Robert Elys (Ellis)

Walter atte Sonde

Bartholomew de Thorp

Benedict le Chipwrite (Shipwright).

A petition from William Haunsard describing a similar attack on the same day is SC 8/51/2517

A related general petition from the citizens of London is SC 8/59/2901

A petition from Henry Prodhome describing a similar attack on the same day is SC 8/59/2906

Another petition from Martin de Chigewelle on this matter is SC 8/59/2907

A petition from John Youn describing a similar attack on the same day is SC 8/59/2905

A petition from Martin de Chigewelle describing a similar attack on the same day is SC 8/59/2904

Another petition describing a similar attack on the same day is SC 8/120/5974

A petition from John de Tryple describing a similar attack on the same day is SC 8/59/2903

• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. III, 1334-1338, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.430 (notification of the king's grant, made in the first year of his reign, that the citizens of London should have their liberties and free customs, made for the security of several citizens, not however including the petitioner, who have been prevented from using them)
• Law and Order in Fourteenth-Century England: The Evidence of Special Commissions of Oyer and Terminer, R. W. Kaeuper, (Whiting & Co., London, 1979), p.752 (reference to petition)