Piece
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Item
Merchants of English cloth of Lynn and Boston. King. [The petition is badly damaged...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/175/8747
What’s it about?
This record is about the Merchants of English cloth of Lynn and Boston. King. [The petition is badly damaged... dating from [1330-1370] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
Access information is unavailable
Sorry, information for accessing this record is currently unavailable online. Please try again later.
Full description and record details
-
Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/175/8747
-
Date (When the record was created)
- [1330-1370]
-
Description (What the record is about)
-
- Petitioners
- Merchants of English cloth of Lynn and Boston.
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- [The petition is badly damaged and faded so that approximately half of the petition is illegible].The merchants request that cloth be sold in English measure . . . from each 100 clothes 4d and the forfeiture of all cloths . . . because alien tailors come and procure cloths by measure . . . to the great damage of the merchants.
- Nature of endorsement
- They should declare their request concerning the length . . .
- Places mentioned
- King's Lynn, [Norfolk]
- Boston, [Lincolnshire].
-
Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is speculatively dated to 1330-1370 on the basis of the hand.
-
Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
-
Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
-
Language (The language of the record)
- French
-
Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
-
Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294615/
Series information
SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
See the series level description for more information about this record.
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
74,884 records
Within the department: SC
Records of various departments, arranged artificially according to type, and formerly...
18,283 records
Within the series: SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
49 records
Within the piece: SC 8/175
8703-8750. Individual petitions are described , dated, and are available at item...
You are currently looking at the item: SC 8/175/8747
Merchants of English cloth of Lynn and Boston. King. [The petition is badly damaged...
Related records
Records that share similar topics with this record.