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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Merchants of Gascony. King and council. The merchants request a remedy and that they...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/169/8431
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This record is about the Merchants of Gascony. King and council. The merchants request a remedy and that they... dating from [1333] 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 8/169/8431
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1333]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Merchants of Gascony.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The merchants request a remedy and that they be taken into the king's safe-keeping so that they can come into England and sell their merchandise, and that it is directed to London and Bristol that they are in the king's protection, and have this proclaimed in other towns. The king granted certain liberties in England but the merchants suffer many grievances and duresses especially in the towns of London and Bristol.
- Nature of endorsement
- They should go into Chancery and show their charters, and have a remedy there.
- Places mentioned
- Gascony, [France]
- London
- Bristol.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1333 as the petition is published in Rot. Parl. II from a Hale manuscript which dated the petitions to parliament held in 7 Edw. III (1333) (Rot. Parl. vol. II, p.74a-b (no.6)).
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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. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.74a-b (no.6) (full edition of later copy of original petition)
- 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), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rotuli Parliamentorum II, pp. 73-89, no. 6 (summary of references)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294278/
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