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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 8/103/5135
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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 8/103/5135
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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 compensation from goods held at Hull, Scarborough and Grimsby and other goods of Scottish merchants in England, or that these goods be taken by the petitioners until this wrong should be fully discussed with sufficient surety of answer to the king, considering that certain goods will deteriorate, such as wine, wool, cloth and other merchandise, that they should have another status or be sold etc.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- York
- Scotland
- Roxburgh, [Roxburghshire, Scotland]
- Kingston upon Hull, [East Riding of Yorkshire]
- Scarborough, [North Riding of Yorkshire]
- Grimsby, [Lincolnshire].
- People mentioned
- [George Dunbar], Earl of March.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Datable by reference to Bain, vol. IV, nos. 242, 244; and see SC 8/103/5134.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For transcript, see no.53 of PRO 31/7/110
For a related petition see SC 8/103/5134
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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 2148
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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/C9149705/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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