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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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William Grantham, Solomon Oxeneye, Thomas Senycle and Robert Hall, citizens of London...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/277/13825
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/277/13825
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1404]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- William Grantham, Solomon Oxeneye, Thomas Senycle and Robert Hall, citizens of London and wardens of the guild of goldsmiths in London, and all the goldsmiths of London.
- Name(s)
- Grantham; Oxeneye; Senycle; Hall, William; Solomon; Thomas; Robert
- Addressees
- King and lords of Parliament.
- Occupation
- wardens of the guild of goldsmiths in London
- Nature of request
- The petitioners state that the wardens of the guild of goldsmiths have always had the surveillance of all gold and silver worked in the city and throughout the realm; and that Edward III, in the first year of his reign, gave them a special right of oversight of all gold and silver worked by cutlers. Now the cutlers are working gold and silver in a new way, and the faults and weaknesses in this will bring the goldsmiths into disrepute if it is not stopped. They ask that the cutlers, and other craftsmen, be forbidden to use any manner of workmanship that they did not use at the time of Edward III's grant. They also ask that they might have in perpetuity the surveillance of all gold and silver worked in the city and throughout the realm, as they have had in the past.
- Nature of endorsement
- Both the tenor of this petition and the tenor of the petition of the cutlers of London presented in this Parliament are to be sent by writ to the mayor of London, who is to have power by authority of Parliament to summon before him the people of both the guild of goldsmiths of London and of the guild of cutlers; and when the evidences and usages of both sides have been shown before the mayor, and when an inquisition has taken place if necessary, the mayor is to inform the King and his council in this present Parliament without delay what he has found in this matter; so that the King, having had deliberation and advice on this with the lords spiritual and temporal in Parliament, might do what seems best in this case.
- Places mentioned
- London
- Westminster.
- People mentioned
- Edward [III], King of England
- cutlers of London.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated to 1404 since it belongs to the Parliament held in January of this year (Rot. Parl. vol. III, pp.536a-537a).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a duplicate of this petition see SC 8/198/9885
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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. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.536a-537a (copy of petition on Parliament Roll, with a related petition from the cutlers and a record of process on these petitions)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517772/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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