1451 - John Petit of Cornwall (1)

Record
Date	1451
Topic	John Petit member of commission to enquire into customs evasions and other wrongdoings in Cornwall.

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Cornwall.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-11-06. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2018-11-06.

Record

[Aug. 16 1451:]
Commission to William Bonevile of Chuton, knight, John Colsyll, knight, Nicholas Ayssheton, John Petit, Thomas Bere and the sheriff of Cornwall, appointing them to make inquisition in the county touching all goods and merchandise, not customed or cocketed, shipped in the county, and touching all arrests made and not observed, and all armour and victuals sold to the king's enemies and the value thereof, and by whom done.

Source notes

Marginal note: "Aug. 16. Canterbury".

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. 480.

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