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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Merchants of Bordeaux. King and council. The merchants of Bordeaux request that whereas...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/216/10767
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This record is about the Merchants of Bordeaux. King and council. The merchants of Bordeaux request that whereas... dating from [c. 1375-c. 1400] 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 8/216/10767
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1375-c. 1400]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Merchants of Bordeaux.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The merchants of Bordeaux request that whereas they are in Flanders with their goods and merchandises because they have no patent or other surety and dare not load or take these goods out of Flanders to Bordeaux except by way of England, that they be granted a patent that they shall be quit of all impositions on the merchandises which they bring from Flanders to England, without buying or selling any of them, in order to seek passage to Bordeaux.
- Nature of endorsement
- On 16 March the council agreed that a patent should be made to the petitioners that all goods and merchandises which they buy in Flanders to bring into Gascony without selling them in England, can be brought into England, unloaded and reloaded without paying the subsidy of 6d. per pound to the King, provided that none of the said goods are sold in England or elsewhere, except Gascony.
- Places mentioned
- Bordeaux, [Guyenne, France]
- Flanders
- Gascony.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated in the endorsement to 16 March, but no indication of a year; the petition is therefore dated impressionistically, on the basis of the hand and form, to the last quarter of the fourteenth century.
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9334323/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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