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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Foreign clothworkers. King and council. The clothworkers from foreign lands who have...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/110/5463
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This record is about the Foreign clothworkers. King and council. The clothworkers from foreign lands who have... dating from [1352] 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 8/110/5463
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1352]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Foreign clothworkers.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The clothworkers from foreign lands who have come to England under the protection and safe conduct of the king complain of the hindrances they encounter from the guild of tailors in London and in other places and request confirmation of their freedom to work in England under the legislation [of 1337]; they also request that they be permitted to elect two men of their mistery in each town where they operate to regulate the standard of their work.
- Nature of endorsement
- Because this petition touches the common profit of all the realm of England and of the lands specified in it, it is accorded by our lord the king, the prelates, earl, barons and others in this full parliament that the things contained in this petition be fully permitted and granted to the suppliant workers, and that proclamation be made again throughout the realm that alien clothworkers should have safe conduct and protection of the king according to the ordinance [of 1337].
- Places mentioned
- London.
- People mentioned
- Guild of tailors of London.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated on the dorse to c. 1376, but clearly identifiable as the petition that led to the letters patent of 1352 recorded in CPR 1350-4, p. 232: see PROME, parliament of 1352, appendix, item 11.
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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 3272
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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 III, vol. IX, 1350-1354, (Public Record Office, 1907), p.232 (letters patent confirming the privileges of aliens trading in cloth and granting them the right to elect two members of their mistery in each town to regulate their affairs)
- Statutes of the Realm, vol. I, ed. A. Luders, T.E. Tomlins, J. France, W.E. Tauntin and J. Raithby, (, 1963), p.281 (legislation of 1337 referred to in petition)
- The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), parliament of 1352, appendix, item 11 (summary of petition and references)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9150128/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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