1351 : John Plukkerose - a Profiteering Shoemaker?

Title:  English Economic History. Select Documents. Compiled and Edited by A. E. Bland, B.A., of His Majesty’s Public Record Office, P. A. Brown, M.A., Lecturer in the University of Durham, and R. H. Tawney, B.A. Third Impression, 1919, New York, 168

Date: 1351
Place: Chelmsford

 

13. PRESENTMENTS MADE BEFORE THE JUSTICES OF LABOURERS

[Assize Roll, 267, mm. 1, 8], 1351].

Hundred of Chelmsford.

 

Trespass. — Further, they present that John Plukkerose, William Smyth of Danbury and William Molt, shoemakers, of Great Baddow, make shoes and sell them at almost double the price which they used [to take], against the Statute, etc., in oppression of the people.

 

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