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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Liege merchants. King and council. The merchants request remedy as many of them are...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/79/3928
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This record is about the Liege merchants. King and council. The merchants request remedy as many of them are... dating from [c. 1362] 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 8/79/3928
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1362]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Liege merchants.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The merchants request remedy as many of them are utterly ruined by a loan that they made to the farmers of customs and subsidies in aid of the king for which they have not been paid, and have paid what has been demanded from them by the customers and controllers for wool taken to ports in England, but now they are wrongfully summoned to come before the king's council by Barry's suggestion and are impeached that they passed a sack and a half for a sack of wool for which many are adjudged to pay great sums, and this the merchants consider against reason.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Calais, [Picardy, France].
- People mentioned
- Walter de Chiryngton (Chirrington)
- Richard Barry.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is clearly c. 1362 as the petition refers to a pardon granted in Edward III's 36th year
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For another petition on a similar matter see SC 8/79/3907
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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 5560
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9107704/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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