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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Mayor and community of merchants holding the staple of wools. King and council. The...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/257/12807
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This record is about the Mayor and community of merchants holding the staple of wools. King and council. The... dating from [1348] 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 8/257/12807
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1348]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Mayor and community of merchants holding the staple of wools.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The Mayor and community of merchants holding the staple of wools state that they had, of the grant of the King's progenitors and the King's confirmation, a half of the forfeitures of wools and other merchandise belonging to the staple and found to be not cocketed and without customs duly paid, in maintenance of their staple, but that writs and commissions for these forfeitures have now been granted to certain people, contrary to the earlier grant made to them, and to the ruin of the staple. They ask that these commissions might be repealed, and that they might have a grant and confirmation for the forfeitures as they did before.
- Nature of endorsement
- The Mayor is to show the charters and commissions for the half of the forfeitures mentioned here in Chancery, and when the person or persons who have the late commission of which he complains have been summoned, and when the arguments for the King and for them have been heard, if it is found that a wrong has been done to the said Mayor by the late commission, then justice is to be done to him on this.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated to the parliament of January 1348 by Rot. Parl. Vol. II p.191b (no.67).
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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)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.191b (no.67) (full edition of later copy of original petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9440419/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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