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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Merchants of Spain. King and Council. The merchants of Spain request remedy, stating...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/168/8369
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/168/8369
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1290]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Merchants of Spain.
- Addressees
- King and Council.
- Nature of request
- The merchants of Spain request remedy, stating that when the bailiffs of Southampton weigh their goods they use a false and deceitful scale to cheat the merchants, and request that the king assign a balanced weight there. They also state that if their goods are only half a pound in the nail underweight they lose the price of the whole nail, whereas they should lose only the price of what is lacking.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Espanye (Spain)
- Southampton, [Hampshire].
- People mentioned
- Bailiffs of Southampton.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The Latin summary of a duplicate of this petition is on a roll which claims to be from the Michaelmas parliament of 18 Edward I (1290) (Rot. Parl. vol. I p. 46), but which Richardson and Sayles, The English Parliament in the Middle Ages, pp.146-7 ascribe to the Easter parliament of 1290. Presumably this duplicate dates from around the same time.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a duplicate petition, differently endorsed, see SC 8/45/2236
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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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- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.47b (Latin summary of duplicate petition on parliament roll)
- The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), roll 02, appendix, no. 28 (full edition and translation of duplicate petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294214/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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