Merchants of England. King and Council. The merchants show that other merchants of...

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.

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

• 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)