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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Goldsmiths of London. King and council. The goldsmiths request remedy as they are...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/325/E676
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This record is about the Goldsmiths of London. King and council. The goldsmiths request remedy as they are... dating from [c. 1299] 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 8/325/E676
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1299]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Goldsmiths of London.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The goldsmiths request remedy as they are impoverished by a proclamation lately made in the city that no-one in the city was to melt pollards or other money on pain of forfeiture of all his goods, as alien people buy all silver that they can find, both vessels and money, and take it out of the realm, so that people come to have pollards and other money to make vessels and they dare not melt it.
- Nature of endorsement
- They should have a licence to found.
- Places mentioned
- London.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to c. 1299 as the matter of the use of pollards and crockard coins in England was a subject of an ordinance of this time with various references to it in the patent rolls for that year (CPR 1292-1301, pp. 430, 435, 510).
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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/C9682670/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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