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Merchants of Florence living in England. King and lords in the present parliament....

Catalogue reference: SC 8/111/5502

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Reference
SC 8/111/5502
Date
[1406]
Description
Petitioners
Merchants of Florence living in England.
Addressees
King and lords in the present parliament.
Nature of request
The merchants of Florence living in England state that a subsidy on wools and woolfells granted in the last parliament at Coventry is higher than they paid previously, and ask that they might be allowed to pay the previous lower sum.
Nature of endorsement
The king, with the assent of the lords spiritual and temporal has granted that the merchants of Florence named in this petition shall not pay, and that none of them shall pay, more than a subsidy of 50s. on each sack of wool, and 50s. on each 240 woolfells to be shipped or sent by them out of the realm of England from 1 February last, or henceforth to be shipped or sent by them out of the same realm, notwithstanding the statute or grant made in the last parliament at Coventry, in which it is contained that the said merchants should pay 53s. 4d. for each sack of wool which they would send out of the realm, and also 53s. 4d. for each 240 woolfells which they would send out of the realm; and the king of his special grace, with the advice and assent of the aforesaid lords has released and pardoned to the said merchants of Florence and to each of them the increase of 3s. 4d. on the aforesaid subsidy, from the aforesaid 1 February.
Places mentioned
Florence [Italy]
Coventry, [Warwickshire].
Note
The petition dates to 1406 as an entry in the patent rolls dated at Westminster on 7 June 1406 is clearly in response to this petition (CPR 1405-8, p.197).
Related material

A duplicate of this petition is SC 8/46/2295

For transcript, see no.25 of PRO 31/7/113

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 3416
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen IV, vol. III, 1405-1408, (Public Record Office, 1907), p.197 (grant to the merchants of Florence living in England that they need pay only 50s. on each sack of wool or 240 woolfells)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9150167/

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