People of Shoreston and North Sunderland. King and council. The people request that...

Petitioners

People of Shoreston and North Sunderland.

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

The people request that the king pardon them their farm and the services that they owe at the castle of Bamburgh for the next year because they are so wasted by the Scottish war, that without his aid they will not be able to hold their lands.

Nature of endorsement

Because it is attested by the council that the people are waste, they should have respite of their farm for a year from the feast of Pentecost until the same feast in the following year, and there should be a writ on this to the constable of Bamburgh.

Places mentioned

Shoston (Shoreston), Northumberland

North Sunderland, Northumberland

Bamburgh, Northumberland.

People mentioned

[Robert de Horncliffe], Constable of Bamburgh.

For a related petition from the burgesses of Bamburgh see SC 8/34/1652

For an earlier petition on the same matter see SC 8/74/3681

For a petition on a similar matter see SC 8/32/1565

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. I, 1327-1330, (Public Record Office, 1896), p.294 (writ to constable to respite the farm)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.25a (no.34) (full edition of a later copy of the original petition)
• The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rotuli Parliamentorum II, pp. 13-30, no. 34 (summary of references)