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Merchants and Tinners of Cornwall. King and Council. 1) The petitioners ask to be...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/103/5129

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This record is about the Merchants and Tinners of Cornwall. King and Council. 1) The petitioners ask to be... dating from [c. 1314-1317] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/103/5129
Date
[c. 1314-1317]
Description
Petitioners
Merchants and Tinners of Cornwall.
Addressees
King and Council.
Nature of request
1) The petitioners ask to be paid in the standard coinage of London. They state that according to Magna Carta the points therein apply in the entire realm, and that officers of the king and queen pay them in other ways.2) They also ask for recognition of their estate and that the power to buy tin be granted alike to all people for the profit of the king and queen. And also that the king and queen buy other merchandise from them. They state that lately the king granted the purchase of Cornish tin to Antonio de Pessagno and other merchants, who give less to the sellers than the value of the tin. The petitioners have previously complained that such grants are to the great cost of the king and queen and to the poverty of the petitioners and all the commons of the county of Cornwall, as appears by the accounts rendered to the king etc.1)
Nature of endorsement
Let this petition be shown to the queen's council to be informed of everything, for which let them have certification in chancery and beyond this decide through reason etc. 2) Both petitions in the presence of the king.
Places mentioned
Cornwall
London.
People mentioned
Antonio de Pessagno, merchant.
Note
The period of Pessagno's office referred to in the petition was 1314-1317, although later notes on the guard suggest that the petition itself dates from c. 1324.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 2129
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. II, 1313-1317, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.199 (grant to Pessagno of the right to buy tin for the king in Cornwall)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1317-1321, (Public Record Office, 1903), p.56 (acquittance of Pessagno for his account for the time he was buyer of tin for the king)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149699/

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