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M1297:bailiffs interference with merchant under royal protection. [1]

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M1300 A: Workings and detailed customs of the market court under the law merchant. [2]

T1302 A: Ship out of Boston bound for Gascony wrecked in Kent. [3]

M1303 A: Attack on sheriff's agent taking provisions for the king by sheriff's letter patent and after sealing receipt for the goods taken. William de Wurmeleye v. Ranulph de Freskeneye, Roger Gernun of Boston, and Nicholas Belle. [4]

M1304 A: Thomas de Sutton of Boston v. William de Billesworth & Geoffrey de Snayth. Accusation of false imprisonment. Justified as part of provisioning of King for the war in Scotland, since they had appreciated goods and offered money that was refused; he was then tried for the contempt and found guilty so that he was imprisoned. [5]

T1306 A: Gilbert de Cestreton v. Richard de Bermyngham late Boston bailiff of John de Britannia sr. Gilbert had suggested to the king that he had sued before Richard de Bermyngham John de Messing according to law merchant without writ for 60 p.s. and that he had proved the debt judicially, but execution of the judgment was delayed because Richard de Bermyngham had exceeded the mandate of the king to seize goods of the merchants of Flanders to the value of 200 p.s. for a wrong done to Ralph Duram, Walter de Bradefeld, William de Cankewel, Phillip de Hedon, Adam Warner of Cottingham, Hugh de Athelwyk, Matthew de Thorne, Robert de Ma, and Richard Goderyk, English merchants. Bermyngham had in fact seized goods worth 1,000 p.s., so that execution could not be had of Gilbert's judicially determined debt. [6]

T1312 A: Presentment to the church of Boston. [7]

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