1324 - John Petit, master of king's ship

Record
Date	1324
Topic	John Petit, master of the king's ship la Valence of Westminster, given safe-conduct for one year to go to various parts of the realm and select mariners for its keeping.

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Westminster, the home port of the ships.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-03-30. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-06-21.

Record

[21 Aug. 1324:]

  Safe-conduct for one year, for William Lucas, master of the king's ship called la Cogge Nostre Dame of Westministre, going to divers parts of the realm on the king's business, and power to him to select mariners required for the keeping and governance thereof, but not men other than mariners.

By p.K.

The like for one year for John Petit, master of the king's ship called la Valence of Westminster.

By p.K.

Source notes

Marginal note against "Safe-conduct": "Aug. 18. Westminster".
Italics as in printed source.

Lists

• Not included in Sussex, Lucy, compil. 'References to Robin Hood up to 1600', in: Knight, Stephen. Robin Hood: A Complete Study of the English Outlaw (Oxford, UK; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Blackwell, 1994), pp. 262-88.

Sources

• [Black, J. G.], compil.; [Isaacson, Robert F.], compil.; [Maxwell-Lyte, Henry Churchill], introd. Calendar of the Patent Rolls Preserved in the Public Record Office (London, 1905), p. 14.

Also see

• Little John the mariner (links)
• Persons named Little John (links).

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