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Horners of London Commons of parliament The horners of London complain of the threat...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/29/1420

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Reference
SC 8/29/1420
Date
[1463-1465]
Description
Petitioners
Horners of London
Addressees
Commons of parliament
Nature of request
The horners of London complain of the threat to their trade from foreigners buying unwrought horns and taking them abroad: both because they will then learn to work them, so as to rival the horners of London, and because as a result there are not enough good quality horns in England. They ask the commons to ask the king to ordain, by authority of parliament, that from Easter 1465 no foreigner should be allowed to buy any unwrought horns, or any Englishman be allowed to sell any to any foreigner (except that the horners might be allowed to sell any surplus horns); and that the wardens of their craft might have power to search for any contravention of this, in London and within a radius of twenty-four miles of London, and in the fairs of Stourbridge and Ely, and to seize any goods found in contravention: half to go to the king, and half to the wardens.
Nature of endorsement
Let it be sent to the Lords (on face).Let it be done as is desired (on dorse).
Places mentioned
London
France
Styrbrigge (Stourbridge), [Cambridgeshire]
Ely, [Cambridgeshire]
People mentioned
Tanners
Butchers
The Mayor of London
the Mayor and Bailiffs of Stourbridge fair
the Mayor and Bailiffs of Ely fair
Note
This petition is transcribed on the roll of the parliament initially summoned at Westminster in April 1463 and prorogued several times, lasting until January 1465 (Rot. Parl. vol. V, p.567a-b)
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 4395
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. V, Hen VI and Edw IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.567a-b (transcription of petition on parliament roll: text unmodified)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061607/

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