Mayor of Calais; Constable of Calais; The Merchants of the Company of the Calais...

Petitioners

Mayor of Calais; Constable of Calais; The Merchants of the Company of the Calais Staple.

Addressees

King and Parliament.

Occupation

Mayor of Calais; Constable of Calais

Nature of request

The petitioners ask that the chancellor be given sufficient authority (for the time being) to deliver to them as many letters and warrants as are deemed necessary for the repayment and satisfaction of a loan of 10,000 marks to the king: 5000 marks from the first half of the second tenth (from the two whole tenths last granted by the clergy of the province of Canterbury), payable at Martinmas 1455, and 5000 marks (the second half of the second tenth), payable at Martinmas next following. Also that the repayments be preferred before all other grants and assignments made or to be made upon any of the said halves after 6 April 1454, and all other grants and assignments made or to be made on any of the said halves after that day be disallowed until the 10,000 marks is fully paid to the petitioners and so entered in the receipt rolls. All manner of grants and assignments made to any person by letters patent or tally by way of reward and not for money lent to the king, to be levied from the tenth last granted by the provinces of Canterbury and York, or from the fifteenth, tenth, or half tenth and tenth granted by the commons in the present parliament, to be made void and of no effect.

Nature of endorsement

[On face] The commons agree to this petition.[On dorse] To be enrolled by the will of the king.

Places mentioned

Calais, [France]

Province of Canterbury, [England]

Province of York, [England].

People mentioned

[Richard Nevill], Chancellor of England.

For a related petition see SC 8/100/4971