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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Not specified King. The King is asked to ordain in the present parliament that no...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/120/5989
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This record is about the Not specified King. The King is asked to ordain in the present parliament that no... dating from [c. 1300-c. 1350] 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 8/120/5989
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1300-c. 1350]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Not specified
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- The King is asked to ordain in the present parliament that no lead is to be sold or taken out of the realm without paying tronage, because he is being deceived and suffering great losses in several ports because of this.
- Nature of endorsement
- The Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer are to be ordered to inform themselves about the business contained in this petition, and if they can establish by inquisition or in some other legitimate manner that lead ought to be weighed on the tron as the petition supposes, then they are to send orders by writ of the Exchequer to the ports where the King has tronage, that tronage is to be paid on it, as on other manners of avoirdupois. pressionistically, on the basis of the hand, to the first half of the fourteenth century
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated on the guard to '? c. 1353', with reference to measures concerning the export of lead in Rot. Parl. vol. II p.247, which do not seem relevant. This date seems far too late for a Latin endorsement. The petition is dated impressionistically, on the basis of the hand, to the first half of the fourteenth century
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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 4972
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9150682/
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