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Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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John Blundel (Blundell), merchant. Blundel (Blundell) John King and council. merchant...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/15/746
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This record is about the John Blundel (Blundell), merchant. Blundel (Blundell) John King and council. merchant... dating from [1328] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/15/746
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1328]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John Blundel (Blundell), merchant.
- Name(s)
- Blundel (Blundell), John
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Occupation
- merchant
- Nature of request
- Blundel states that the king is bound to him for a sum of money for a loan made to him by his customers of London, just as appears by two letters patent sealed under the cocket seal which Blundel has. He requests that the king order his customers to allow the sum in the customs that he should pay for his wool exported overseas from London.
- Nature of endorsement
- Let it be ordered by a writ of Chancery to the collectors of the customs of the same place that when they have viewed the letters patent, if they find that so much is due to him by this reason, that they should allow so much to him in the customs of wool, hides and wool fells that he would be charged in the port to export them overseas, receiving from him the letters patent, and his letters of acquittance.
- Places mentioned
- London.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Securely dated to 1328, as a writ was addressed to the collectors of the custom of wool in London on 25 October 1328 to allow the sum in full (CCR 1327-30, p.344)
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Parliamentary Petition 636
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
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- Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. I, 1327-1330, (Public Record Office, 1896), p.344 (writ to the collectors of the custom of wool in London to allow Blundell the sum)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.395a (no.989) (full edition of original petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060887/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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