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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Merchants buying and selling wine of Gascony and Guyenne. Commons of parliament....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/199/9901
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This record is about the Merchants buying and selling wine of Gascony and Guyenne. Commons of parliament.... dating from [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 8/199/9901
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1445]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Merchants buying and selling wine of Gascony and Guyenne.
- Addressees
- Commons of parliament.
- Nature of request
- The petitioners state that measures for ensuring the purity of wine form Gascony and Guyenne are now being neglected, so that the wine often becomes undrinkable within a year, and also that tuns of wine are being made of smaller measure than the English gauge, so that merchants pay customs on more wine than they buy; and that in response to this, the King has sent his letters patent commanding that the making of the wine and the assize are to be as they used to be. They ask the commons to ask the King and lords to ordain, with the authority of parliament, that these wines should be made after the good former manner, which they describe, and that all vessels in those parts should be made to the full assize, and those which are not should be forfeited; with fines for failure to carry this out.
- Nature of endorsement
- [On face] Let it be sent to the lords.[None on dorse]
- Places mentioned
- Gascony, [France]
- Guyenne, [France]
- Ireland
- Wales
- Bordeaux, [Guyenne, France].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Transcribed on the roll of the parliament of 1445 (Rot. Parl. vol. V, pp.113b-115a).
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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)
- English
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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)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. V, Hen VI and Edw IV, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.113b-115a (transcription of petition on parliament roll)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9295790/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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