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Tinners of Cornwall. King. [Petition in two parts:]1) The tinners request that the...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/315/E197

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SC 8/315/E197
Date
[1302]
Description
Petitioners
Tinners of Cornwall.
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
[Petition in two parts:]1) The tinners request that the king will give them remedy and ordain that they can sell their tin at the neighbouring towns as they always have, as they are disturbed in their customs to their and the king's great loss by an ordinance to sell their tin at Lostwithiel which is 100 leagues from any mine.2) They request confirmation of a charter of King John which was confirmed by King Henry and Earl Edmund their last lord.
Nature of endorsement
They should go to the Exchequer and show the charter of [...].
Places mentioned
Cornwall
Lostwithiel, [Cornwall].
People mentioned
John, King of England
Henry III, King of England
Edmund [of Almaine], Earl of Cornwall.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
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), 1302, summer parliament, appendix, petitions belonging to this parliament and not otherwise recorded, no.2 (summary of this file)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9529249/

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