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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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People of the liberty of Durham. King and council. The people show that when the...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/12/588
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This record is about the People of the liberty of Durham. King and council. The people show that when the... dating from [1333-1334] 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 8/12/588
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1333-1334]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- People of the liberty of Durham.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The people show that when the bishopric was in the hand of the king following the death of Bishop Beaumont, he summoned an eyre to Durham, though no eyre was summoned in Northumberland. The people complain that this seems contrary to the law, and to avoid the mischief and disinheritance of the church the people made a fine of 1,000 marks to the king, the king's ministers disregarding the damages that they had suffered during the war. The people request that the king grant an aid to them similar to the one given to the men of Northumberland, and give them letters under the great seal like those given to other men for all manner of debts and of victuals, and that he grant to the present bishop that no eyre be held unless it is first begun in Northumberland as has been the use under the king's predecessors and the bishop's predecessors.
- Nature of endorsement
- Coram rege et magno consilio.They are to have respite until the feast of St Michael next coming, that the king in the meanwhile will do what by his good council seems to him ought to be done.
- Places mentioned
- Durham, [County Durham]
- Northumberland
- Norham, [Northumberland]
- Sadberge, [County Durham].
- People mentioned
- Louis de Beaumont, Bishop of Durham.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1333-4 by Fraser, and indeed the death of Bishop Beaumont on 25 September 1333, and the payment of the 1,000 mark fine into the Exchequer by Bishop Bury on 2 June 1335 (CPR 1334-8, p. 118) seem to confirm the dating of this petition to about this date. As the petition does not mention that the fine had been made at the time of the petition, its dating to before the bishop's payment seems acceptable.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a fragmentary copy of this petition see SC 8/107/5334
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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)
- Parliamentary Petition 2637
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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)
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- Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), pp.229-32 (no.169) (full edition)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.99b-100a (no.8) (full edition of related petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060727/
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