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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Merchants of England. King and Council. The merchants show that other merchants of...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/127/6307
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This record is about the Merchants of England. King and Council. The merchants show that other merchants of... 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 8/127/6307
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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 England.
- Addressees
- King and Council.
- Nature of request
- The merchants show that other merchants of England, Wales and Ireland import Irish cloth called Friseware and Irish wool but these are not cloths of colour or stripe, or of the length or width as was ordained in parliament. Also they are troubled by the collectors of the subsidy, and of ulnage against the form and content of the grant of the subsidy since all customs are paid to the customs collectors in Ireland. The merchants request that it be ordained in this parliament that no subsidy or alnage be paid for these cloths and wool, and that it is stated in letters patent that they are not comprised in the statute.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Ireland
- Wales.
- People mentioned
- Merchants of Ireland
- Merchants of Wales.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated by Rot. Parl. Vol. II to the January parliament of 1377.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a duplicate of this petition see SC 8/14/657
For another duplicate of this petition see SC 8/14/658
For an individual petition on the same matter see SC 8/296/14790
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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 5744
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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 Ancient Petitions Relating to Wales, Board of Celtic Studies, History and Law, (University of Wales, 1975), p.213 (summary of petition)
- Irish Material in the Class of Ancient Petitions (SC 8) in the Public Record Office, Analecta Hibernica, vol. XXIV, P. Connolly, (Stationery Office of Ireland, 1987), p.45 (reference to this petition being a duplicate of SC 8/14/657)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.372a (edition of petition, with additional response)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9208482/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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