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Merchants and other people of the realm of England. King and council. The merchants...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/313/E57

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This record is about the Merchants and other people of the realm of England. King and council. The merchants... dating from [? 1302] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/313/E57
Date
[? 1302]
Description
Petitioners
Merchants and other people of the realm of England.
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
The merchants and others request remedy and that the debts due to them be paid. The only record they have of the debts is in the rolls of the stewards and marshals, and they petition for redress at the Lincoln parliament, but following this, despite being ordered to produce the rolls the steward and marshal refused without special warrant from the king.1)
Nature of endorsement
Amongst other petitions concerning recognisances before the steward and marshal.2) This was not answered in the parliament at Lincoln nor anything certain ordained upon such a petition.3) Let it remain.
People mentioned
Stewards
Marshals.
Note
The petition is dated to 1302 as the duplicate is dated to this date by the entry in Rot. Parl. where it is dated on the basis of Ryley transcripts as coming from a file of this date (Vol. I, p.155a (no.8)).
Related material

For a duplicate of this petition differently endorsed see SC 8/79/3915

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Select Cases in the Court of King's Bench, vol. III, Edw I, Ed. G.O. Sayles, (Selden Society, vol. LVIII, 1939), pp.cxxiv-v (entry b) (full edition of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9529108/

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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions

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