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Letters patent ordering a duty on pilchards and an annual sum of £100 from customs...

Catalogue reference: 933/113

What’s it about?

This record is a file about the Letters patent ordering a duty on pilchards and an annual sum of £100 from customs... dating from 1593.

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Reference

933/113

Date

1593

Description

Letters patent ordering a duty on pilchards and an annual sum of £100 from customs revenue in the ports of Devon and Cornwall, together with the moiety of fortfeitures of forbidden goods towards the cost of fortifying the town of Plymouth (with transcript)

Held by
Plymouth and West Devon Record Office
Language

English

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/5ae25c6b-0565-4480-a6f4-cabba56b8d72/

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141,003 records

This record is held at Plymouth and West Devon Record Office

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Letters patent ordering a duty on pilchards and an annual sum of £100 from customs...