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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Merchants. Council. The merchants request that remedy be made so that they are able...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/346/E1405
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This record is about the Merchants. Council. The merchants request that remedy be made so that they are able... dating from [? c. 1330-? c. 1355] 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 8/346/E1405
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? c. 1330-? c. 1355]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Merchants.
- Addressees
- Council.
- Nature of request
- The merchants request that remedy be made so that they are able to buy wool throughout the realm as they were want to do before the ordinance concerning weights, the penalties for which are most perilous and grievous to the merchants so that they dare not buy wool [the petition detailing abuses of weighing goods for which merchandises are forfeit].
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]. er, the hand does appear to suggest that it might well be earlier than this parliament roll complaint.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to? c. 1330-? c. 1355 on the basis of the hand, and also on a common petition of 1354 that complains of the failure to introduce new weights across the realm (Rot. Parl., vol. II, p. 260b (no. xxi)). However, the hand does appear to suggest that it might well be earlier than this parliament roll complaint.
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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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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.260b (no.xxi) (request by the commons for the amendment of weights and measures)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9736829/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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