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Mayor and merchants of Newcastle upon Tyne. John, Archbishop of Canterbury, Chancellor...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/299/14914

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Reference
SC 8/299/14914
Date
[1333-1340]
Description
Petitioners
Mayor and merchants of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Addressees
John, Archbishop of Canterbury, Chancellor of England.
Nature of request
The Mayor and merchants of Newcastle upon Tyne, petitioning on behalf of the other merchants of the community of England, state that since the realm of Scotland was in the hand of the King of England, they have been accustomed to load wools, hides and woolfells at Berwick and elsewhere in Scotland, paying the customs due for them, and to take them to Newcastle and elsewhere in England, and there if necessary to unload them and load them into other ships, paying only a courtesy to the clerk to change their Scottish cocket for an English one. But now the customs officers at Newcastle are demanding that they pay customs twice on these wools, hides and woolfells, for which they request a remedy.
Nature of endorsement
The collectors of customs are to be ordered that on wools and other merchandise on which they have paid their customs at Berwick, and which they have unloaded and reloaded on the water, they should not pay their custom again.
Places mentioned
Newcastle upon Tyne, [Northumberland]
Scotland
Berwick-upon-Tweed, [Northumberland].
People mentioned
John [Stratford], Archbishop of Canterbury, Chancellor of England
customs officers of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Note
John Stratford was Archbishop of Canterbury between November 1333 (papal provision) and his death in 1348, and was Chancellor between November 1330 and September 1334, between June 1335 and March 1337, and between April and July 1340. This petition would therefore seem to belong to 1333-1334, to 1335-1337, or to 1340. Northumberland Petitions pp.212-213 (no. 190) suggests that it is most likely to come from 1335-1337.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Ancient Petitions Relating to Northumberland, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CLXXI, 1961), pp.212-213 (no.190) (full edition of original petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9518117/

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