1365 - John Petit of Abbeville

Record
Date	1365
Topic	John Pety among more than 25 people who unlawfully carried away goods and merchandise floating to shore from ship wrecked off the Northumberland coast near Seaton Delaval

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Abbeville, the capital of Ponthieu under English rule.

Place Max Lejeune in Abbeville / Pline, 12 May 2013, Wikimedia Commons.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-11-08. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-11-08.

Record

[7 Aug. 1365:]
The like [sc. commission of oyer and terminer] to Richard, earl of Arundel, Ralph Spigumell, Andrew Peverel and William Merlot, touching a complaint by John Petit, merchant of Abbevill, that some evildoers boarded a ship of his laden with wheat and other goods, wounded the mariners, brought the ship and cargo to the county of Sussex and sold the same there.By K.

Source notes

Membrane 29d. of the Patent Roll for 39 Edward III - Part II. Italic type as in printed source. IRHB's brackets. Marginal note: "July 18. Westminster".

IRHB comments

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

• [Isacson, Robert F., compil.; Maxwell-Lyte, Henry Churchill, introd.; Dawes, M.C.B., index.]. Calendar of the Patent Rolls, preserved in the Public Record Ofice. Edward III. Vol. XIII. A.D. 1364–1367 (London; Edinburgh; Dublin, 1912), p. 202.

Background

• Abbeville.

Also see

• Persons named Little John (links).

Notes