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Mayor and commonalty of Lynn. King and council. The mayor and commonalty state that...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/334/E1184

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SC 8/334/E1184
Date
[c. 1316]
Description
Petitioners
Mayor and commonalty of Lynn.
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
The mayor and commonalty state that it has been commanded by various writs that no one carry victuals out of the realm by which the enemies are sustained. Afterwards came out of Chancery to various people to carry a great deal of beer and other victuals to Holland and Zeeland, and into other lands, and men regularly buy licences to carry ale and other victuals out of the country into foreign lands to the great dearth of corn and malt and to the impoverishment of the realm. The mayor and commonalty request that the king and council will be advised of this, and will restrain such commands, and that writs be delivered out of Chancery to the bailiffs of Lynn that they should not suffer any ale or other victuals to be carried out of the town or haven as there is not sufficient for the sustenance of the country nor the king.
Nature of endorsement
At Lincoln the bailiffs of Lynn were commanded that they are not to permit any ale to leave the town to foreign parts by virtue of the king's grant within contained.
Places mentioned
King's Lynn, [Norfolk]
Holland, [Netherlands]
Zeeland, [Netherlands]
Lincoln, [Lincolnshire].
Note
The petition is dated to c. 1316 because licences were being granted from 1314-1316, and measures were being taken concerning the export of victuals in 1315 and 1316 (CPR 1313-17, pp. 178, 380, 418, 420).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. II, 1313-1317, (Public Record Office, 1898), pp.178, 380, 418, 420 (two licences to export ale, a commission to enquire of those in Lynn who had exported corn to the Scots, and order for the surveying of all corn and other victuals leaving the bailiwick of Lynn, and for the taking of security from those wishing to export them that they will not export them to the Scots)
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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9683312/

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