John de Pabenham, merchant of Coventry. de Pabenham John Chancellor. Coventry, [Warwickshire]...

Petitioners

John de Pabenham, merchant of Coventry.

Name(s)

de Pabenham, John

Addressees

Chancellor.

Places mentioned

Coventry, [Warwickshire]

Ireland.

Nature of request

John de Pabenham states that he and other merchants of England petitioned parliament stating that the cloth and wool brought by them from Ireland should be exempt from the recent subsidy on cloth and also from alnage, and that the collectors of these subsidies should not demand payment from them, and their petition was answered that they should sue in Chancery and show their grievances, and that a remedy would be provided by statute. John therefore asks for letters patent to all sheriffs, mayors and bailiffs, and to the collectors of the subsidy, attested that his cloth and wool is not covered by the statute, and ordering them not to levy any subsidy or alnage from him or his deputies or servants for it, or to harass him for this reason.

Nature of endorsement

[None].

For a duplicate of this general petition, see SC 8/14/658

For a general petition on the same matter, see SC 8/14/657

• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. XVI, 1374-1377, (Public Record Office, 1916), pp.28-29 (instructions to all sheriffs, mayors, bailiffs and collectors of subsidies to permit the petitioner to sell his cloth)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. I, 1377-1381, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.89 (commission to inquire into this cloth, as certain merchants and others are refusing to pay the subsidy on it)
• Irish Material in the Class of Ancient Petitions (SC 8) in the Public Record Office, Analecta Hibernica, vol. XXIV, P. Connolly, (Stationery Office of Ireland, 1987), p.93 (brief calendar of petition)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.372a (enrolment of common petition on this subject on parliament roll)
• The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), parliament of January-March 1377, appendix, no. 5 (discussion of related petitions)