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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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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 (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/103/5129
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1314-1317]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- 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.
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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 2129
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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)
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- 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)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149699/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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