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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Merchants of the realm of England. King and council. The merchants of the realm of...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/21/1011
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This record is about the Merchants of the realm of England. King and council. The merchants of the realm of... dating from [c. 1387-c. 1388] 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 8/21/1011
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1387-c. 1388]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Merchants of the realm of England.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The merchants of the realm of England state that many merchants are being harmed by an ordinance previously made in parliament, that no cloth should be put up for sale before being sealed with the seal ordained for this, because the words 'put up for sale' are interpreted in different ways; they request that the precise meaning of these words be made clear by an ordinance of the present parliament.
- Nature of endorsement
- How people are harmed by this is to be explained. oth in 1353.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Rot. Parl. vol. III p.254a (no. 5) edits this petition as being from 11 Richard II (1387-1388), but several of these petitions seem not to be from these years. The ordinance in question is that set up to modify the alnage of cloth in 1353.
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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 5520
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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)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.254a (no. 5) (full edition of original petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061171/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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