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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Company of the Calais Staple. King and Council. The petitioners seek confirmation...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/102/5060
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This record is about the Company of the Calais Staple. King and Council. The petitioners seek confirmation... dating from [1378] 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 8/102/5060
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1378]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Company of the Calais Staple.
- Addressees
- King and Council.
- Nature of request
- The petitioners seek confirmation and enforcement of an order made in the last parliament at Westminster that all petty merchandise be brought to the Calais Staple and to no other port, according to the tenor of the charter of the king's grandfather, to the king's great profit and the increase of the town of Calais. And that Hugh Calveley should remain in his office as captain of Calais for the king's honour and the profit of the entire realm, and for the good protection and governance of the said town and of the merchants and merchandise returning there.
- Nature of endorsement
- This bill is answered elsewhere among the common petitions.
- Places mentioned
- Calais, [France]
- Westminster.
- People mentioned
- Hugh Calveley, Captain of Calais.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Datable by cross-reference to PROME, parliament of 1378, item 54.
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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 1972
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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)
- The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), parliament of 1378, item 54 (version of petition on parliament roll)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149629/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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