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Robert de Tughale (Tughall). de Tughale (Tughall) Robert King. Tughale requests that...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/12/591

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Reference
SC 8/12/591
Date
[c. 1335]
Description
Petitioners
Robert de Tughale (Tughall).
Name(s)
de Tughale (Tughall), Robert
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Tughale requests that the king grant to him a tenement which is in the king's hands by the forfeiture of Emma Bettes in the Shambles of Berwick in allowance for his many losses incurred at the hands of the Scots, or ordain some certain remedy. He states that his houses at Rock and Scremerston have been burnt by the Scots, his grain growing on his land destroyed by the king's army, and his cattle taken by the Scots.
Nature of endorsement
He should have it at the old farm for the term of his life, and after that . . .
Places mentioned
Rock, Northumberland
Scremerston, Northumberland
Berwick, [Northumberland]
Tweedmouth, [Northumberland].
People mentioned
Emma Bettes.
Note
The guard details and Fraser both assign this the date c.1335. Although it is not entirely clear why this is the case (Northern Petitions, pp.84-5 (no.52)). Fraser notes that Tughale was sheriff of Berwick from 1333-37, and references can be found to him in the close rolls for 1335, but not in a context with the contents of this petition (CCR 1333-37, pp.364-5, 487). However 1335 is probably about the right date, this request being made in the aftermath of the recapture of Berwick by the English.
Related material

For another petition by the same petitioner on a different matter, see SC 8/226/11299

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 8070
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), pp.84-5 (no.52) (full edition of petition)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.115 (memorandum that Tughale who ought to hold the offices of chamberlain and victualler of Berwick is only to retain the office of victualler]
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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060730/

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