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King's customers in the port of Bristol. Chancellor. The King's customers in the...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/305/15230

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Reference
SC 8/305/15230
Date
[c. 1356]
Description
Petitioners
King's customers in the port of Bristol.
Addressees
Chancellor.
Nature of request
The King's customers in the port of Bristol request that Lombard be ordered to accept the validity of Bristol cokets on cloth brought to Ireland, as he claims that the seal should be on each cloth, not on the parchment accompanying each consignment.
Nature of endorsement
He should have a writ to allow the cokets as reason demands.
Places mentioned
Bristol, [Gloucestershire]
Cork, [County Cork], Ireland.
People mentioned
John Lombard, King's searcher in Cork.
Note
Dated to c. 1356 in Irish Ancient Petitions, p. 96.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Irish Material in the Class of Ancient Petitions (SC 8) in the Public Record Office, Analecta Hibernica, vol. XXIV, P. Connolly, (Stationery Office of Ireland, 1987), p.96 (translation of petition with references)
  • The Overseas Trade of Bristol in the later Middle Ages, ed. E.M. Carus-Wilson, (William Salt Archaeological Society, vol, 1937), pp.43-4 (no.30) (edition and discussion of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9682442/

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