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John de Cotes, Merchant of Durham; William de Cotes, Merchant of Durham. de Cotes;...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/100/4982

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Reference
SC 8/100/4982
Date
[c. 1330]
Description
Petitioners
John de Cotes, Merchant of Durham; William de Cotes, Merchant of Durham.
Name(s)
de Cotes; de Cotes, John; William
Addressees
The King
Occupation
Merchant
Nature of request
The petitioners seek a letter of the privy seal to the treasurer and barons of the exchequer to search the rolls of Burton and Barton, and what is found due to the petitioners should be repaid them by the treasurer and chamberlains of the exchequer, or an allowance made notwithstanding any previous orders. They state that they brought their wool to Hull in the first year of the present king (1327), from which the king borrowed one mark per sack, and Burton and Barton (then customs collectors of the town) received the money and rendered their account at the exchequer and paid the money over.
Nature of endorsement
Let them have an order to the treasurer and barons of the exchequer to inspect the letters mentioned in the petition, and if the debt is still due then they are to make payment or convenient assignment.
Places mentioned
Durham, [County Durham]
Kingston-upon-Hull, [East Riding of Yorkshire].
People mentioned
Robert de Burton
John de Barton.
Note
Dated by Fraser, Northern Petitions, pp.161-2 (no.121).
Related material

For a related petition see SC 8/41/2009

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 1789
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), pp.161-2 (no.121) (full edition of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149549/

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