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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Clerks, pilgrims and merchants of England. King and the lords of his great council....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/158/7899
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This record is about the Clerks, pilgrims and merchants of England. King and the lords of his great council.... dating from [? 1430-? 1445] 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 8/158/7899
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? 1430-? 1445]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Clerks, pilgrims and merchants of England.
- Addressees
- King and the lords of his great council.
- Nature of request
- The petitioners request that the wardens of Calais be summoned before the council to answer for the charges they make on the passage between Dover and Calais against the ancient custom, and for the poor care of those making the passage.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Dover, [Kent]
- Calais, [France]
- Sandwich, [Kent].
- People mentioned
- Richard Veer (Vere), warden of Calais
- John Sprot, warden of Calais
- Simon Sutton, warden of Calais
- John Heyward, warden of Calais.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition has been dated to? 1430-? 1445. The matter of the passage from Dover to Calais was current from 1440-1464 (CPR 1436-41, pp.392-3; CPR 1446-52, pp.427-8; Rot. Parl., vol. V::p.568a-b (no.x)). However the petition may be earlier as Sprott witnessed a charter of September 1429 at Calais (CCR 1429-35, p.322), and Veer was one of the merchants of the Calais staple recorded in the patent rolls of 1426 (CPR 1422-9, pp.348-9). As the petition is in English a date of c. 1440 is perhaps closer to the mark.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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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, Hen VI, vol. III, 1436-1441, (Public Record Office, 1907), pp.392-3 (grant to the mayor and commonalty of Dover of their liberties especially concerning the passage to Calais)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen VI, vol. V, 1446-1452, (Public Record Office, 1910), pp.427-8 (grant to the mayor and commons of Dover of the liberties of the passage)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. V, Hen VI and Edw IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.568a-b (no.x) (another petition by the mayor and commonalty of Dover concerning the passage to Calais)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9210091/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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