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

Catalogue reference: SC 8/299/14915

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Reference
SC 8/299/14915
Date
[1333-1340]
Description
Petitioners
Mayor and merchants of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Addressees
John, Archbishop of Canterbury, Chancellor of England, and the King's council.
Nature of request
The Mayor and merchants of Newcastle upon Tyne state that ever since customs on wools, hides and wool-fells were granted to the King by the merchants of England they have been accustomed to pay customs only on merchandise to be sent overseas, but that now the keepers of the customs in Newcastle upon Tyne are taking customs from them on wools, hides and wool-fells to be sent elsewhere in England. They request a remedy.
Nature of endorsement
The collectors of customs are to be ordered by writ that the merchants, denizen and foreign, who wish to carry or take their wools and other merchandise out of the said port elsewhere in England are to provide as much money as their customs will amount to, or a sufficient pledge as the ancient . . . is, to bring back a certification and warrant from the places in England where they have unloaded the said goods and merchandise, and when they have such a certification, they are to have delivery of their pledges.
Places mentioned
Newcastle upon Tyne, [Northumberland].
People mentioned
John [Stratford], Archbishop of Canterbury, Chancellor of England
keepers of the customs in 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. Tentatively dated to 1340 by Northumberland Petitions p.213 (no.191).
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), p.213 (no.191) (brief summary of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9518118/

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