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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 and citizens of London and Norwich. King and council. The merchants and...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/294/14689
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This record is about the Merchants and citizens of London and Norwich. King and council. The merchants and... dating from [? c. 1320-? c. 1350] 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 8/294/14689
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? c. 1320-? c. 1350]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Merchants and citizens of London and Norwich.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The merchants and citizens of London and Norwich state that the ancient assizes for certain kinds of cloth are not longer being upheld, with the result that they are being punished overseas by prison and redemption for the defective cloth they have bought here. They ask that an ordinance might be made that the assize might be upheld by assay, alnage and alnager, and that, when this ordinance has been publicly proclaimed, all cloth found to be defective might be forfeit to the king.
- Nature of endorsement
- Certain people are to be appointed to inquire if the assize was in the past as is claimed by the petition, and how the assize has been kept in the past, and by whom, and in what way, and into all other necessary articles. And when the inquisition has been returned in Chancery, a remedy is to be ordained. And the [cloth]workers are to be warned of the holding of the inquisition.
- Places mentioned
- London
- Norwich, Norfolk.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Tentatively dated on the basis of the hand and language.
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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/C9735852/
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Series information
SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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