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Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Merchants of York. King and Council. The petitioners state that they were pillaged...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/103/5134
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This record is about the Merchants of York. King and Council. The petitioners state that they were pillaged... dating from [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 8/103/5134
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1377]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Merchants of York.
- Addressees
- King and Council.
- Nature of request
- The petitioners state that they were pillaged and robbed at Roxburgh the day of St Laurence last by the earl of March, of all their goods and chattels worth £2025, excluding the death of a great number of their servants. They seek the arrest of John Mercer and the other Scottish merchants, and to have delivery of his body in compensation, or that John and the others, with the said goods, should be collected together and guarded until the next march day to compensate for their damages and injuries etc.
- Nature of endorsement
- The king wishes the second option.
- Places mentioned
- York
- Roxburgh, [Roxburghshire, Scotland]
- Scotland.
- People mentioned
- [George Dunbar], Earl of March
- John Mercer.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Datable by reference to Bain, vol. IV, nos. 242, 244; and see SC 8/103/5135.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For transcript, see no.52 of PRO 31/7/110
For a related petition see SC 8/103/5135
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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 2147
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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)
- Calendar of Documents Relating to Scotland, vol. IV, 1357-1509, Ed. J. Bain, (Her Majesty's General Register House, 1888), no.242 & no.244 (related documents)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149704/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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