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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Merchants of the realm. Commons in parliament. The petitioners ask the commons to...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/23/1144
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This record is about the Merchants of the realm. Commons in parliament. The petitioners ask the commons to... dating from [1416] 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 8/23/1144
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1416]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Merchants of the realm.
- Addressees
- Commons in parliament.
- Nature of request
- The petitioners ask the commons to ask the king that the grant of a subsidy to provide for the safeguard of the sea, made in the parliament held at Westminster on the Monday after All Saints, 3 Henry V, be ratified and confirmed in all points, and, as was specified in the grant, that if any merchant is found trying to evade the subsidy, or any other, he should pay double the amount of the subsidy, without any other penalty.
- Nature of endorsement
- [On face] Conc.[On dorse] The grant previously made to the king on this matter is to be entirely kept and executed, according to the effect of the same grant.
- Places mentioned
- Westminster
- Calais, [France]
- Harfleur, [Normandy, France].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The grant of the subsidy was made at the parliament of November 1415 (3 Henry V) as the petition and Rot. Parl. vol. IV p.64a make clear; this petition is most likely to be from the next parliament, that of March 1416 (3 Henry V) or the following one, that of October 1416 (4 Henry V). This is confirmed by the request that the commons approach the king on this: after these parliaments the king is not present in person until May 1421. Rot. Parl. vol. IV p.91a-b (no. 13) assigns it to 3 Henry V, so it is probably from the March parliament.
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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 1878
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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.91a-b (no.13) (full edition of original petition) & 64a (grant of subsidy on roll of parliament of November 1415)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061312/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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