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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Burgesses of Calais. King and Council. 1) The petitioners seek discharge from customs...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/102/5095
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This record is about the Burgesses of Calais. King and Council. 1) The petitioners seek discharge from customs... dating from [c. 1377] 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 8/102/5095
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1377]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Burgesses of Calais.
- Addressees
- King and Council.
- Nature of request
- 1) The petitioners seek discharge from customs paid at Calais for cloth bought in England, considering they are free in their town of all customs and that they remain since the conquest and have suffered much grief and danger, and still stay for the safeguard of the same. They show that any of them in England for the buying of cloth and wool pay all English customs and subsidies for the said cloth brought to Calais for the maintenance of the town.2) They seek a lodge over the hall appurtenant to the hall they have had since ancient times, which lodge the treasurer of Calais does not suffer them to have. For this they retain a small rent from this lodge, which costs the king more to repair than it is worth in good times. They also show how the enemy rules over them harshly and watches over their people in the town.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None.]
- Places mentioned
- Calais, [France]
- England.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For transcript, see no.10 of PRO 31/7/110
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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 2064
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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/C9149665/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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