The People of 1381
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Participant
| First name | John |
| Last name | Cok |
| Gender | Male |
| Domicile | Beaumont-cum-Moze,Tendring Hundred,Essex |
| Source | ERO D/DGh M14 |
Incidents
| ID | Summary | Description | Location | Role | Charges | Comments on role | View incident |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3253 | Burning of court rolls at Beaumont-cum-Moze (Essex) | John Cok and other tenants seized the court rolls of the manor of Moze and burned them. All customary land confiscated and re-granted on payment of fines. | Beaumont-cum-Moze,Tendring Hundred,Essex | Accused | View Incident page |
Biographical Information
| Date | Location | Info | Source | Comment | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15/05/1380 | Beaumont-cum-Moze,Tendring Hundred,Essex | Cok one of 12 chief pledges. Fined 13d for allowing his bakehouse ('pistrina') to fall into disrepair; ordered to repair it under pain of half a mark (6s 8d). | ERO D/DGH M14 | ||
| 04/06/1381 | Beaumont-cum-Moze,Tendring Hundred,Essex | Cok fined 2d for illegally felling a tree. | ERO D/DGh M14 | ||
| 23/09/1381 | Beaumont-cum-Moze,Tendring Hundred,Essex | Cok, like all other tenants, had his messuage (dwelling house) with appurtenance and 5 acres 'ware' land (i.e., land that was held by customary tenure that was liable for the royal geld, a pre-Norman tax) confiscated and re-granted after swearing fealty and on payment of 10s entry fine. | ERO D/DGh M14 | ||
| 27/05/1382 | Beaumont-cum-Moze,Tendring Hundred,Essex | Cok acted as chief pledge; fined 1d for felling tree without licence. | ERO D/DGh M14 | ||
| 12/05/1383 | Beaumont-cum-Moze,Tendring Hundred,Essex | Cok acted as chief pledge and affeerer (one of usually two tenants setting the level of the fines). | ERO D/DGh M14 | ||
| 31/05/1384 | Beaumont-cum-Moze,Tendring Hundred,Essex | Cok acted as chief pledge and affeerer. | ERO D/DGh M14 | ||
| 10/08/1384 | Beaumont-cum-Moze,Tendring Hundred,Essex | In the first court of the knight John de Plaiz John Cok one of 10 tenants who do not appear to do fealty. | ERO D/DGh M14 | ||
| 23/05/1385 | Beaumont-cum-Moze,Tendring Hundred,Essex | John Cok's name crossed out in list of chief pledges. | ERO D/DGh M14 | ||
| 07/04/1386 | Beaumont-cum-Moze,Tendring Hundred,Essex | Cok acted as chief pledge. | ERO D/DGh M14 | ||
| 12/06/1386 | Beaumont-cum-Moze,Tendring Hundred,Essex | Cok acted as chief pledge and affeerer. His wife (name not given) fined 2d for brewing offences. | ERO D/DGh M14 | ||
| 22/09/1386 | Beaumont-cum-Moze,Tendring Hundred,Essex | Cok acted as affeerer. | ERO D/DGh M14 | ||
| 14/12/1386 | Beaumont-cum-Moze,Tendring Hundred,Essex | Cok acted as affeerer. | ERO D/DGh M14 | ||
| 28/05/1387 | Beaumont-cum-Moze,Tendring Hundred,Essex | Cok fined 3d for allowing his tenement to fall into ruins ('tenementum suum esse rewynos') and ordered to repair it; he also acted as chief pledge. | ERO D/DGh M14 | ||
| 07/12/1387 | Beaumont-cum-Moze,Tendring Hundred,Essex | Charge that Cok did not repair his tenement repeated, fined 3d again and ordered to repair it; Cok acted as affeerer. | ERO D/DGh M14 | ||
| 19/05/1388 | Beaumont-cum-Moze,Tendring Hundred,Essex | Cok did not repair his tenement, fined 3d again and ordered to repair it under pain of 40d; Cok acted as chief pledge; his wife fined 2d for brewing offences. | ERO D/DGh M14 | ||
| 08/06/1389 | Beaumont-cum-Moze,Tendring Hundred,Essex | Cok acted as chief pledge and affeerer. | ERO D/DGh M14 | ||
| 24/05/1390 | Beaumont-cum-Moze,Tendring Hundred,Essex | Cok acted as chief pledge; all chief pledges fined 3d for contempt; Cok fined 3d for trimming and 'decapitating' a willow and other trees in the King's highway. | ERO D/DGh M14 | ||
| 23/05/1391 | Beaumont-cum-Moze,Tendring Hundred,Essex | Cok acted as chief pledge. | ERO D/DGh M14 | ||
| 04/06/1392 | Beaumont-cum-Moze,Tendring Hundred,Essex | Cok (spelled 'Kok') acted as chief pledge and affeerer. | ERO D/DGh M14 | ||
| 27/05/1393 | Beaumont-cum-Moze,Tendring Hundred,Essex | Cok in list of chief pledges, but name his name is superscripted by another name | ERO D/DGh M14 | ||
| 09/06/1394 | Beaumont-cum-Moze,Tendring Hundred,Essex | Cok acted as affeerer (but not as chief pledge) | ERO D/DGh M14 | Cok still mentioned occasionally in courts and leets up to 1399, but not as chief pledge nor as affeerer; gap in court rolls after 1399 until they resume 1416. |
