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Merchants of Florence living in England King and lords in parliament The merchants...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/46/2295
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This record is about the Merchants of Florence living in England King and lords in parliament The merchants... dating from [1406] 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 8/46/2295
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1406]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Merchants of Florence living in England
- Addressees
- King and lords in parliament
- Nature of request
- The merchants of Florence living in England state that a subsidy on wools and woolfells granted in the last parliament at Coventry is higher than they paid previously, and ask that they might be allowed to pay the previous lower sum.
- Nature of endorsement
- The king, with the assent of the lords spiritual and temporal has granted that the merchants of Florence named in this petition shall not pay, and that none of them shall pay, more than a subsidy of 50s. on each sack of wool, and 50s. on each 240 woolfells to be shipped or sent by them out of the realm of England from 1 February last, or henceforth to be shipped or sent by them out of the same realm, notwithstanding the statute or grant made in the last parliament at Coventry, in which it is contained that the said merchants should pay 53s. 4d. for each sack of wool which they would send out of the realm, and also 53s. 4d. for each 240 woolfells which they would send out of the realm; and the king of his special grace, with the advice and assent of the aforesaid lords has released and pardoned to the said merchants of Florence and to each of them the increase of 3s. 4d. on the aforesaid subsidy, from the aforesaid 1 February.
- Places mentioned
- Florence [Italy]
- Coventry, [Warwickshire]
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- CPR 1405-8 p.197 is dated at Westminster, 7 June 1406, and is clearly in response to this petition.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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A duplicate of this petition is SC 8/111/5502
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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 3562
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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)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen IV, vol. III, 1405-1408, (Public Record Office, 1907), p.197 (grant to the merchants of Florence living in England that they need pay only 50s. on each sack of wool or 240 woolfells)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062505/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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