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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Catalogue reference: SC 5/8/7
Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
Item
? No Petitioner named Draft letters patent of Edward I that for the repair and improvement...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/33/1615
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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Draft letters patent of Edward I that for the repair and improvement... dating from [c. 1306] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/33/1615
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1306]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- ? No Petitioner named
- Nature of request
- Draft letters patent of Edward I that for the repair and improvement of the town of Berwick, and for the benefit and profit of the burgesses he has granted that the town can be a free borough, and the people of it are burgesses, and have all the liberties and free customs pertaining to a free borough.
- Nature of endorsement
- Coram rege quia de Scotia.
- Places mentioned
- Berwick-upon-Tweed, [Northumberland]
- People mentioned
- Edward I, King of England
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition and draft charter are dated by Fraser to c. 1306. The petition itself looks later, but the draft charter looks of about the right age. It is not entirely clear whether Fraser's date should be accepted.
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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 1103
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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)
- Latin
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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)
- Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), pp.28-34 (no.14) (full edition of original draft letters patent)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061812/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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