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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Merchants, denizen and foreign. King and council. The king's merchants, denizen and...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/283/14105
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This record is about the Merchants, denizen and foreign. King and council. The king's merchants, denizen and... dating from [c. 1332] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/283/14105
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1332]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Merchants, denizen and foreign.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The king's merchants, denizen and foreign, complain of a new tax levied by the King of France's wardens in the town of Langon in the Duchy of Guyenne, which is contrary to all ancient statutes and to merchant law: that is, a levy of 10 s. tournois on each tun of wine to find security that they will not take the wine to England or sell it to anyone who will take it to England. They ask that this toll might be abolished, so that the realm is not reduced to servitude.
- Nature of endorsement
- He is to sue to the messengers who will go to the Paris parlement, who will be charged with this business among others touching the Duchy.
- Places mentioned
- Langon, [Guyenne, France]
- Guyenne, [France].
- People mentioned
- [Philip VI], King of France.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Datable to c. 1332 with reference to nos. 33-36 of C 47/28/2; nos.35 and 36 mention an agreement made in 1331. See the discussion of the petition in M. Vale, The Angevin Legacy and the Hundred Years War (Oxford, 1990), p. 249.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a series of related documents see nos. 33-36 of C 47/28/2
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9682216/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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