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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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None specified. Commons of parliament. The petition complains that whereas in other...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/24/1183
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This record is about the None specified. Commons of parliament. The petition complains that whereas in other... dating from [? 1422] 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 8/24/1183
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? 1422]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- None specified.
- Addressees
- Commons of parliament.
- Nature of request
- The petition complains that whereas in other countries only the natives are allowed to be brokers, in England there are brokers of many nations, some of whom have been banished, who use usury, and who pry into the secrets of the realm and its trade, and use them in favour of foreign merchants and against English ones, so that the price of spices and sweet wines is rising, but the price of certain types of cloth is falling. It asks the commons to ask the King and lords to ordain by statute in this parliament that henceforth no alien should be a broker in England, on pain of £50 to be paid to the King, and that all Mayors, Sheriffs, Bailiffs and Escheators in cities, towns and ports should be charged with making an annual search and execution, according to the terms of the statute.
- Nature of endorsement
- Soit baille as seignurs (It is to be delivered to the lords). (on front)To this petition this answer was given: le Roi soi advisera (The king will consider this further). (on front)Le Roi soi advisera (The king will consider this further).
- People mentioned
- Alien brokers
- merchants of the realm.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- This petition is edited in Rot. Parl. vol. IV p.193b (no. 3) amongst petitions allegedly from the parliament of November 1 Henry VI (1422).
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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 745
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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.193b (no.3) (full edition of original petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061353/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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