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V: MERCHANTS, TRADE, AND FINANCE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2017

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[No petitioner specified]: request that no wines brought into the country by foreign merchants should be taken for the king by the butler or his people without the payment of the custom of 2s for wine of good quality; for if the wines are the king's and the custom is paid, he will lose nothing. A writ on this is requested to all collectors of customs.

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Research Article
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Royal Historical Society Camden Fifth Series , Volume 52: EARLY COMMON PETITIONS IN THE ENGLISH PARLIAMENT, c.1290–c.1420 , July 2017 , pp. 129 - 163
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Copyright © Royal Historical Society 2017 

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References

1 There is a redundant abbreviation in this word.

2 Deleted.

3 The word regraters has been crossed out and this word substituted.

4 The document is slightly stained on the right-hand side.

5 Conjectural. The mounting of the petition obscures these words.

6 Tear in parchment.

7 Possibly an abbreviated form of carcois.

8 Tear in parchment.

9 Illegible.

10 The right-hand edge of the parchment is missing, and the text has worn away in parts.

11 Illegible.

12 The right-hand side of the parchment is stained, meaning that one or two words are illegible at the end of the first three lines and in the interlinear insertion.

13 Illegible: supplied from context.

14 Illegible: supplied from context.

15 There is a small hole in the parchment here: the text is supplied from context.

16 Approximately 3cm of parchment is missing from the right-hand side of the document, meaning that one or two words are missing from the end of each line.