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William de Mereu, merchant of Genoa, attorney. de Mereu William King and Council....

Catalogue reference: SC 8/126/6285

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Reference
SC 8/126/6285
Date
[1322]
Description
Petitioners
William de Mereu, merchant of Genoa, attorney.
Name(s)
de Mereu, William
Addressees
King and Council.
Occupation
merchant of Genoa, attorney
Nature of request
William de Mereu, merchant of Genoa and attorney of Bonaventure, Fornet and other merchants, requests remedy, stating that when the merchants arrived at Southampton carrying hides from Greece and Spain, for which they ought to be exempt from the cocket, Sampson and Sutton, keepers of the cocket, arrested their merchandise, namely 51 Greek hides, for the cocket which they have no right to have.
Nature of endorsement
Order the keepers of the cocket that if they do not justly owe for the cocket for the hides which they have brought, then they should issue a quittance and relax the distraint unless the King shall wish to hear the plaint more fully.
Places mentioned
Genoa, [Italy]
Southampton, [Hampshire]
Greece
Spain.
People mentioned
Francis Bonaventure
John de Fornet
Hugh Sampson, keeper of the cocket
Richard de Sutton, keeper of the cocket.
Note
Comissions of oyer et terminer were issued in connection with various complaints by Mereu (described there as Meret or Meriet) on 21 July 1322 (CPR 1321-4, pp.250-1, in response to petitions at SC 8/126/6288-90), and given the similarities in the handwriting of the petitions, and in the people mentioned, it is clear that this petition relates to the same series of events.
Related material

For another petition from this petitioner at this time see SC 8/126/6288

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 5710
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. IV, 1321-1324, (Public Record Office, 1904), pp.250-1 (commissions of oyer et terminer issued in response to other complaints by this petitioner at this time)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9208460/

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