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Not specified King. The petition requests a writ to the collectors of customs on...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/194/9670

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Reference
SC 8/194/9670
Date
[? 1342]
Description
Petitioners
Not specified
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
The petition requests a writ to the collectors of customs on wools in Norfolk and Suffolk to deliver the wools to the merchants to whom the King has sold them by sacks weighed at the tron, rather than by stones or smaller packages, as by doing this they are losing profit for the King.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Norfolk
Suffolk.
People mentioned
Collectors of customs on wool in Norfolk and Suffolk.
Note
Formerly enclosed with no.81 of C 81/1330, which is dated 26 June. CCR 1341-3 p.643 is dated 25 June 1342, and would seem to be in response to this petition.
Related material

For a mandate to provide a remedy for this, for the King's profit, see no.81 of C 81/1330

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. VI, 1341-1343, (Public Record Office, 1902), p.643 (order to the collectors to deliver wool by the tron)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9295556/

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