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Citizens of York King and council The citizens of York make three requests:1) They...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/46/2267
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/46/2267
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1307]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Citizens of York
- Addressees
- King and council
- Nature of request
- The citizens of York make three requests:1) They state that a certain person, deceiving them and without being asked by them, made fine in 100 s. before the Chancellor to have quayage in York, and the 100 s. are levied and paid in the Exchequer in vain and for nothing. They ask for a remedy for themselves and for the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer, and that the money might be allowed to them in their farm for the next Easter term.2) They state that they have to levy a very heavy tallage every year from their citizens in order to pay their farm, and ask that they might have a charter, of his grace and quit of the fee of the seal, to build on and let the wastes of the city, in aid of their farm.3) They state that the people of Kingston upon Hull are preventing merchants from sailing upriver to York with their goods without unloading them at Hull and paying the new custom on them, causing great delays and impoverishing the merchants of York. They ask that a collector of this custom might be appointed at York.
- Nature of endorsement
- [On face: each response written below its petition.][To first petition] They are to sue the person who has deceived them before the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer.[To second] They are to name the plots and wastes, and an inquisition will be held on this by a writ of the king's Chancery; and the return is to be before the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer.[To third] Those who enter the port of Hull are to pay the custom of three pence in the pound, according to the ordinance made on this, and if they want to travel further they are to do so, and not to be compelled to unload their goods, nor to enter the port unless they want to. And a writ of Chancery is to be sent on this to the Keeper of the town of Kingston upon Hull.And John Lespecer and Vincent Verdnel are to be appointed to collect and receive the new custom of three pence in the pound at York; and a writ of the king's Chancery is to be issued on this.
- Places mentioned
- York
- Kingston upon Hull, [East Riding of Yorkshire]
- People mentioned
- The Mayor of York
- John Lespecer, collector of new custom at York
- Vincent Verdnel, collector of new custom at York
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- CPR 1301-7 p.336 is dated at Westminster, 10 April 1305, and may well be the grant of quayage complained about in the petition.
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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 9025
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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)
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- Calendar of Fine Rolls, vol. I, Edw I, 1272-1307, (Public Record Office, 1911), p.550 (commission to John Lespecer and Vincent Verdnel to collect the new custom at York during pleasure)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. IV, 1301-1307, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.336 (grant to the Mayor, Bailiffs and citizens of York of quayage for 5 years)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062477/
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