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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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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 (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/94/4669
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? 1378-? 1379]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- 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.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For transcript, see no.55 of PRO 31/7/111
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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 797
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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/C9149220/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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