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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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Tinners of Cornwall. [None specified]. Articles upon which the tinners request justice...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/342/16144
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This record is about the Tinners of Cornwall. [None specified]. Articles upon which the tinners request justice... dating from [c. 1340-c. 1380] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/342/16144
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1340-c. 1380]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Tinners of Cornwall.
- Addressees
- [None specified].
- Nature of request
- Articles upon which the tinners request justice namely:1) Of all those that by menaces of indictments by force and assault oust the tinners from their lands so that they dare not seek and dig for their tin.2) Of all those that by mastery and lordship, in spite of the tinners, retain their money that was levied by common assent of the tinners to pay their debts towards the king, and the remainder to put in a common purse for their works and to maintain and increase their franchises.3) Of all those that are friends of the tinners and put themselves in their council and assent, but afterwards are the first to oppose when they have the counsel and procurement of others to do this.4) Of those that for a long time have used and still use false weights not marked in buying the tin of poor people in the towns of Bodmin, Lostwithiel, Truro, Helston and elsewhere.5) [Entry struck-through].6) Of those that export tin overseas secretly, the tin not being coined by the coin of the king, by which the king loses the profit of his coin.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Bodmin, [Cornwall]
- Lostwithiel, [Cornwall]
- Truro, [Cornwall]
- Helston, [Cornwall].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is speculatively dated to c. 1340-c. 1380 on the basis of the hand.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Chancery Miscellaneous Roll 22/5/14 (transferred 7/10/1924).
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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/C9736625/
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Series information
SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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