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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Walter Tourk, citizen of London. Tourk Walter King and council. citizen of London...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/120/5974
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/120/5974
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1333]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Walter Tourk, citizen of London.
- Name(s)
- Tourk, Walter
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Occupation
- citizen of London
- Nature of request
- Tourk requests that commission of oyer and terminer is assigned concerning the trespass done to him and that he can have due remedy as despite the citizens of London having rights to freely trade in Little Yarmouth, Perbroun and others of Great Yarmouth came on 16 October 1333 and seized his ships loaded with Herring and took them to Great Yarmouth to his great damage.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Little Yarmouth, Suffolk
- Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.
- People mentioned
- John Perbroun of Great Yarmouth
- Robert de Draytone of Great Yarmouth
- Thomas de Draytone of Great Yarmouth, son of Robert de Draytone
- Stephen de Draytone of Great Yarmouth
- Thomas Stacy of Great Yarmouth
- Henry Randolf of Great Yarmouth
- Robert Elis (Ellis) of Great Yarmouth
- Walter atte Sonde of Great Yarmouth
- Bartholomew de Thorp of Great Yarmouth
- Bennet le Shepwrighite (Shipwright) of Great Yarmounth.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition dates to c. 1333 as the petition refers to event on 16 October 1333.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a petition from John Youn describing a similar attack on the same day see SC 8/59/2905
For a petition from John de Tryple describing a similar attack on the same day see SC 8/59/2903
For a petition from John Lovekyn describing a similar attack on the same day see SC 8/59/2902
For a petition from Henry Prodhome describing a similar attack on the same day see SC 8/59/2906
For a related general petition from the citizens of London see SC 8/59/2901
For a petition formerly attached to this one, see SC 8/51/2517
For transcript, see p.101 of PRO 31/7/131
For another petition from Martin de Chigewelle on this matter, see SC 8/59/2907
For a petition from Martin de Chigewelle describing a similar attack on the same day see SC 8/59/2904
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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 4924
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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)
- 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)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9150667/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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