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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Merchants of Gascony King [and council?] [This petition is badly damaged] The petition...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/339/15983
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This record is about the Merchants of Gascony King [and council?] [This petition is badly damaged] The petition... dating from [1311-1322] 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 8/339/15983
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1311-1322]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Merchants of Gascony
- Addressees
- King [and council?]
- Nature of request
- [This petition is badly damaged] The petition states that [the king owes] various merchants of Gascony a large sum of money [for wines taken for him] by his butler, and that in payment they were given a certain amount from the custom . . . of Newcastle upon Tyne, Kingston upon Hull, Boston . . . Sandwich and Southampton, but that the custom was reduced by the Ordinances, [so that they could not be paid] and are greatly harmed, and have nothing with which to trade. They ask the king to give them a good assignment for their payment.
- Nature of endorsement
- [The Treasurer and Barons] of the Exchequer [are to be ordered] that, for what can legitimately [be found to be due] to them . . . within . . . as quickly as possible.
- Places mentioned
- Gascony, [France]
- Newcastle upon Tyne, [Northumberland]
- Kingston upon Hull, [East Riding of Yorkshire]
- Seint Botolf (Boston), [Lincolnshire]
- Sandwich, [Kent]
- Southampton, [Hampshire].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Datable from the reference within the petition to the withdrawal of the new custom between the Ordinances of 1311 and its re-imposition in 1322.
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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/C9736464/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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