Thanks for your comments Hardluck and Alan, Like they say in prospecting "search where gold has been found" rather than chasing fantasies, but on the other hand if the probability suggests that some form of treasure was carried with the King, and it was lost, then it maybe still there, most likely under 30ft of silt/soil.
A while back I found an article suggesting that a fisherman had found a silver plate on the shore in the general region, I belief stamped in someway to suggest it was from the period in question. If that can be established as fact, then that would be a step in the right direction.
Also, the following piece from the "online library"suggests that John and his entourage would carry valuables with them.
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"THE COMMON LAW COURTS AS ESTABLISHED UNDER EDWARD I1
By Frederic Andrew Inderwick
IN 1196, under Richard I., there were numerous appointments of judges to the Curia Regis, including those of Hubert Walter, Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishops of London and Rochester, and several laymen; and similar appointments continued to be made, both to the Curia Regis and to the Justices Itinerant, until the 52nd Henry III. (ad 1268), when the system was again altered.
In the meantime, however, dissatisfaction had arisen with the proceedings of the Curia Regis itself. This Court followed the King not only theoretically but actually. Where the King went to hold a Court there also went the Curia in both departments; the Curia Regis with the Justiciar, the Chancellor and the Justices, and the Exchequer with the Treasurer, the Chamberlain, the officers and the treasure. And thus the King in his progresses was accompanied not only by his great and smaller officers of State, but by carts and wagons loaded with bullion,
3 with gold and silver plate, with jewels, and all the personal treasures of the King not deposited in the Abbey or in the treasury at Winchester. Numerous hanapers, or hampers of plaited rushes or straw, formed part of the baggage, and held the writs, the records, and the tallies necessary for carrying on the business of the courts. And thither in the wake of the King followed the suitors whose plaints waited determination in the King?s Court. These perambulations of the monarch reached their culminating point in the reign of King John. When he was out of the kingdom, Archbishop Hubert Walter acted as Chancellor and sat in the King?s place at Westminster. When he was at home, he was in constant progress through the country, and in the year 1211 it is said that he sat at no less than twenty-four separate towns.1 To all these resting-places the unhappy suitors followed, or lost the chance of their causes being tried. And accordingly it was provided, by the 17th clause of Magna Carta, that for the future, common pleas, or causes between party and party, as distinguished from Crown and Revenue cases, should not follow the King in his wanderings, but should be heard and determined in some ascertained and well-known place. ?Communia placita non sequantur curiam nostram, sed teneantur in aliquo loco certo.? This ascertained place was Westminster Hall, and the Court of Common Pleas retained the name, down to its abolition as a separate jurisdiction in 1875, of The Court of Common Pleas at Westminster."
3-Hall?s Antiquities of the Exchequer.
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