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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Jocelin de Clyve (Clive), citizen of London. de Clyve (Clive) Jocelin King and council....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/120/5976
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This record is about the Jocelin de Clyve (Clive), citizen of London. de Clyve (Clive) Jocelin King and council.... dating from [c. 1333] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/120/5976
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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
- Jocelin de Clyve (Clive), citizen of London.
- Name(s)
- de Clyve (Clive), Jocelin
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Occupation
- citizen of London
- Nature of request
- Jocelin de Clyve states that although the citizens of London have from time immemorial been accustomed to buy, sell, load and unload herring and other merchandise at Little Yarmouth, and to treat their herring and take it where they please, and although the Great Charter says that they will have their franchises and free customs unimpaired, John Perbroun, Robert de Drayton, Thomas de Drayton, Henry Randolf, Robert Elys, Walter atte Sonde, Bartholomew de Thorp, Benedict de Chipwrite, Stephen de Drayton, Thomas Stacy and others from Great Yarmouth, on the Saturday before St Luke in the King's seventh year, came to Little Yarmouth with force and arms and carried off several ships, containing herring which Jocelin had bought, to Great Yarmouth. Jocelin asks that justices might be appointed to hear and determine this trespass, and that a remedy might be given to him.
- Nature of endorsement
- Each person who wishes to complain of trespasses committed since the judgment is to have writs of oyer et terminer, for a reasonable fine to be paid in Chancery.
- Places mentioned
- London
- Little Yarmouth, Suffolk
- Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.
- People mentioned
- John Perbroun of Great Yarmouth
- Robert de Drayton of Great Yarmouth
- Thomas de Drayton of Great Yarmouth, son of Robert de Drayton
- Henry Randolf of Great Yarmouth
- Robert Elys (Ellis) of Great Yarmouth
- Walter atte Sonde of Great Yarmouth
- Bartholomew de Thorp (Thorpe) of Great Yarmouth
- Benedict de Chipwrite of Great Yarmouth
- Stephen de Drayton of Great Yarmouth
- Thomas Stacy of Great Yarmouth.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The attack took place on the Saturday before St Luke in the King's seventh year [October 1333]. The petition must date from shortly after this.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For transcript, see p.102 of PRO 31/7/131
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 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 4926
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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/C9150669/
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