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Mayor, Constables and company of the staple at Calais. Commons of parliament. The...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/23/1142
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/23/1142
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1414
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Mayor, Constables and company of the staple at Calais.
- Addressees
- Commons of parliament.
- Nature of request
- The Mayor, Constables and company of the staple at Calais, make three requests:1) They complain that various merchants are carrying tin, both smelted tin called 'shotentyn' and unsmelted tin, to places other than the staple, and ask the commons to ask the king to ordain, by the advice of the lords spiritual and temporal in the present parliament, that no wool, woolfells, hides, lead, tin, smelted or not, or other merchandise of the staple should be carried overseas without being sent first to the staple, in accordance with the statutes on this.2) They ask that none of the goods or merchandise duly brought to the staple, and customs paid on it, should henceforth be removed from the staple without due process of law; and they ask for due restitution and redress for William Flete, of the company of the staple, for his goods lately taken from his houses at the staple at Calais.3) As merchants currently fear to bring wools to the staple until they are sure of the friendship of the people of Flanders and Brabant, they ask the commons to ask the king to give the merchants, and the company of the staple, his answer on this.
- Nature of endorsement
- [On face] Leg'r coram dominis (It is read or it is to be read before the lords).[On dorse] The response to this petition, with regard to the first article, is on the roll of the parliament held at Westminster on the Monday after the octave of Martinmas in the second year of the reign of King Henry, the fifth since the conquest.With regard to the second article: the king, with the assent and authority of parliament, will that the matter of this second article be entrusted to the king's council, and that the lords of the council, by the aforesaid authority, are to have full power to hear the William's complaint, and the allegations of his adversary, and to provide full justice and redress.And as for the third article, mentioning Flanders and Brabant, the king said that, by the grace of God, he wished to make sufficient ordinance and provision concerning this.
- Places mentioned
- Calais, [France]
- Jersey
- Gersey (Guernsey)
- Bretaigne (Brittany), [France]
- Guyenne, [France]
- Cornwall
- France
- Normandy, [France]
- Flanders
- Holland
- Seland (Zeeland)
- Brabant.
- People mentioned
- William Flete (Fleet), of the company of the staple at Calais
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- As it says on the dorse, the first article of this petition is enrolled on the roll of the November parliament of 1414 (2 Henry V) (Rot. Parl. vol. IV pp.53b-54b)
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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 2216
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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. IV, Hen V and Hen VI, (Record Commission, 1783), p.56a-b (no.4) (full edition of original petition) & pp.53b-54b (transcription of first article of this petition on parliament roll, text unmodified, with response)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061309/
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