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Date | 1447 |
Topic | The Litell John of Calais and Nicholas of London seized to small ships trying to dodge the customs. |
Calais.
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-11-04. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-11-04.
Record
[7 Oct. 1447:]
Grant to the king's serjeant, Thomas Byrmychamp, esquire for the body, of all that pertains to the king of the forfeiture of two ships called 'spynners' alias 'farkenstekers,' laden of late with wool and other goods and merchandise in the port of Pole or other places and 'crykes' pertaining thereto, which, issuing thence secretly without payment of cocket or custom, were taken by two ships called Litell John of Calais and Nicholas of London. By K. etc.[1]
Grant to the king's serjeant, Thomas Byrmychamp, esquire for the body, of all that pertains to the king of the forfeiture of two ships called 'spynners' alias 'farkenstekers,' laden of late with wool and other goods and merchandise in the port of Pole or other places and 'crykes' pertaining thereto, which, issuing thence secretly without payment of cocket or custom, were taken by two ships called Litell John of Calais and Nicholas of London. By K. etc.[1]
Source notes
Marginal note: "Oct. 7. Westminster". Italic type as in printed source.
IRHB comments
For ships named after Little John or Robin Hood, see the page on Ship names. This passage is the first of only two ME occurrences of the noun 'spinner' , derived from another relatively rare ME word, 'spinace', a "small ship capable of carrying 25 men, a pinnace".[2]
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
- [Bland, A. E.], compil.; [Isaacson, Robert F.], compil.; [Maxwell-Lyte, Henry Churchill], introd. Calendar of the Patent Rolls, Preserved in the Public Record Ofice (London; London; Edinburgh; Dublin, 1906), p. 15, and see p. 14.
Background
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Notes