coket

In 1382 the King granted Brembre in discharge of 2,000 m. lent by him to the King to discharge a debt to Sir Bretrucat de Lebret, half a mark from the subsidy of each sack of wool and wool-fells passing out of the ports of London and Boston, with custody of one part of the coket seal of the latter port, until the loan should be fully paid [Footnote: idem, p. 164.].

Chaucer's Official Life James Root Hulbert 1926

In 1382 the King granted Brembre in discharge of 2,000 m. lent by him to the King to discharge a debt to Sir Bretrucat de Lebret, half a mark from the subsidy of each sack of wool and wool-fells passing out of the ports of London and Boston, with custody of one part of the coket seal of the latter port, until the loan should be fully paid [Footnote: idem, p. 164.].

Chaucer's Official Life Hulbert, James Root, 1884- 1912

The duties of the collectors of customs were to ensure payment on all wools and leather shipped from their port, to have the wool or leather weighed at the wool-beam and each bale tested and sealed with the Government stamp or “coket” seal.

Chaucer's Official Life Hulbert, James Root, 1884- 1912

The fferdyng whit loff coket /xvij oz & d [= ½] & ob weight [*]

Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

The loaf of clean wheat of a quartern shall weigh a coket and a half, and the loaf of all corns of a quartern shall weigh two cokets; and it is understood that the baker so may get of every quarter of wheat as it is proved by the King's bakers four pence and the bran, and two loaves to furnage of the price of two pence; and three servants a penny farthing, and two grooms a farthing; in salt a farthing; in yeast a farthing, in candell and in wood three pence, in bultell allowed a farthing.

Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc James Anthony Froude 1856

But of _coket_ and _cler-mantyn_, or else of cleane wheate. "

Notes and Queries, Number 187, May 28, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Various 1852

[Both _coket_ and _cler-mantyn_ mean a kind of fine bread.

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