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Geoffrey Turbok of Lynn and Walter de Gosewyk of Berwick-upon-Tweed, burgesses and...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/256/12792B

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SC 8/256/12792B
Date
[1306-1307]
Description
Petitioners
Geoffrey Turbok of Lynn and Walter de Gosewyk of Berwick-upon-Tweed, burgesses and merchants.
Name(s)
Turbok; de Gosewyk, Geoffrey; Walter
Addressees
King and council.
Occupation
merchants
Nature of request
Geoffrey Turbok of Lynn and Walter de Gosewyk of Berwick complain that the King of France has repeatedly delayed and defaulted in the matter of doing justice to them and to other merchants for injuries, depredations and wrongs committed against them by sailors and others of his power during the truces, although he has frequently agreed to do so. They ask the King to aid them to receive satisfaction, both for the goods which they have lost and for their losses and expenses, according to the law merchant hitherto in use in England.
Nature of endorsement
He is to come to London.
Places mentioned
King's Lynn, [Norfolk]
Berwick-upon-Tweed, [Northumberland]
France
Dover, [Kent]
Ponthieu, [France]
Saquvill (Sauqueville), [Picardy, France]
Mostroll (Montreuil), [Picardy, France]
Amyas (Amiens), [Picardy, France]
Vermandois, [Picardy, France]
Winchelsea, [Sussex]
Poitiers, [Poitou, France]
Calais, [France]
Paris, [France].
People mentioned
Robert de Borghersh, knight, Constable of Dover castle
John de Bauquelle, knight, Seneschal of Ponthieu
Seigneur de Sauqueville, knight
Moton de Blamville, knight
[Philip IV], King of France
Robert Burnell, Lord of St Venantius
James de Courcelle, clerk
William Tebout, bailiff of Amiens
Roger Savage, knight
Philip Martel, clerk
William de Hanget, bailiff of Vermandois
Stephen de Borreto, Dean of Poitiers
John de Verres, knight
John Pederogh of Calais, mariner.
Note
The petition mentions the dates of three weeks after Easter 1306, and the quinzaine of the following feast of St Remigius (1 October 1306 or 13 January 1307), but seems to be from before the death of Edward I.
Related material

For another petition from the same petitioners on the same subject, see SC 8/256/12792C

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9440400/

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