Diverse merchants of England. King and council. The merchants show that other Irish...

Petitioners

Diverse merchants of England.

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

The merchants show that other Irish and Welsh merchants import Irish cloth called Friseware and Irish wool but these are not cloths of colour or stripe, or length or width as was ordained in parliament. Also they are troubled by the collectors of the subsidy, and of alnage against the form and content of the grant of the subsidy since all customs are paid to the customs collectors in Ireland. The merchants request that it be ordained in this parliament that no subsidy or alnage be paid for these drapes and wool, and that it is stated in letters patent that they are not comprised in the statute.

Nature of endorsement

[Illegible].

Places mentioned

Ireland

Wales.

People mentioned

Merchants of Ireland

Merchants of Wales.

For a petition from an individual merchant on the same matter see SC 8/296/14790

For a duplicate of this petition see SC 8/14/658

For another duplicate of this petition see SC 8/127/6307

• Calendar of Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), p.213 (calendar of a duplicate of this petition)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. I, 1377-1381, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.89 (commission concerning the refusal to pay subsidy on Friseware)
• Irish Material in the Class of Ancient Petitions (SC 8) in the Public Record Office, Analecta Hibernica, vol. XXIV, P. Connolly, (Stationery Office of Ireland, 1987), p.9 (brief calendar of petition)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.372a (no.liv) (edition of petition as common petition on parliament roll with a different response)
• The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), parliament of January-March 1377, appendix, no. 5 (summary of petition)