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Godekyn de Cosfeld of the Eastland, merchant. de Cosfeld Godekyn King and council....

Catalogue reference: SC 8/99/4913

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Reference
SC 8/99/4913
Date
[c. 1322]
Description
Petitioners
Godekyn de Cosfeld of the Eastland, merchant.
Name(s)
de Cosfeld, Godekyn
Addressees
King and council.
Occupation
merchant
Nature of request
Godekyn de Cosfeld of the Eastland states that when his ship was anchored off Skegness on the Wednesday in Pentecost week in the fifteenth year of the current King's reign, Robert Leveys, Thomas Springet, William Punch and Gervase Alard seized the ship and its merchandise and carried it off to Blakeney. He requests a remedy.
Nature of endorsement
The advice of the council: it seems to the council, if it please our lord the King, that it is good that he send strongly-worded letters ordering those who are named as trespassers in these petitions to make due restitution without delay of the goods taken in this manner, or to appear before the King on a certain day to answer on this and to stand to right.Then the assent of the King: the King wishes this to be done, and that his people are not to be spared in this regard more than others, for it seems to him that his people should better keep the peace than others. And for this reason he wishes them to be punished as much as the others.
Places mentioned
Eastland
Seint Botolf (Boston), [Lincolnshire]
Skegness, Lincolnshire
Blakeney, [Norfolk]
Cinque Ports.
People mentioned
Robert Leveys, mariner of the Cinque Ports
Thomas Springet, mariner of the Cinque Ports
William Punch, mariner of the Cinque Ports
Gervase Alard, mariner of the Cinque Ports.
Note
The attack took place on the Wednesday in Pentecost week, 15 Edward II [1322], and the petition seems likely to date from shortly after that.
Related material

For transcript, see no.22 of PRO 31/7/103

For a petition on a similar subject that may be contemporary, see SC 8/99/4912

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 1614
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Select Cases before the King's Council, 1243-1482, Ed. I.S. Leadam and J.F. Baldwin, (Selden Society, vol. XXXV, 1918), pp.32-3 (edition and translation of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149480/

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