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Merchants of Bordeaux. King and council. The merchants request that they pay customs...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/94/4669

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This record is about the Merchants of Bordeaux. King and council. The merchants request that they pay customs... dating from [? 1378-? 1379] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/94/4669
Date
[? 1378-? 1379]
Description
Petitioners
Merchants of Bordeaux.
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
The merchants request that they pay customs on all manner of goods bought in London in the city, and that they do not need to go to Calais to pay the customs in accordance with the Statute.
Nature of endorsement
[On face]Let this bill be ordered to Chancery . . . The response has been heavily amended and has suffered from the application of gall so that its sense is not entirely clear].[On dorse, none].
Places mentioned
Bordeaux, [Guyenne, France]
London.
Note
The petition is dated speculatively to? 1378-? 1379 on the basis of the guard note assessment. The justification for the dating does not appear on the guard, so the date must be treated with caution.
Related material

For transcript, see no.55 of PRO 31/7/111

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 797
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149220/

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