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Brothers and sisters of the House of God of Berwick-upon-Tweed King and council The...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/34/1659
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/34/1659
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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
- Brothers and sisters of the House of God of Berwick-upon-Tweed
- Addressees
- King and council
- Nature of request
- The brothers and sisters state that Rydal founded the house ordaining a staff of chaplains and choir-men to celebrate mass under a master chaplain, and providing sustenance and clothing for five poor sick people in the house. To maintain the house Rydal purchased £100 of land and rent in Scotland and England. He ordained that vacancies be filled by the mayor and commonalty of the town, and in their default by the king. The king appointed Paynton and then after the battle of Bannockburn one Edmund de London who was ousted by Robert the Bruce, whose nominee, Roxburgh still holds the position. During Roxburgh's tenure only one other chaplains has been appointed, no poor men receive sustenance, Roxburgh lying with his concubine and spending the goods of the house. The petitioners request remedy in that Roxburgh has always been a chief enemy of the king, and has killed two men and married two women in Berwick. The petitioners request that they consider the unsuitability of Roxburgh and the ruin of the house, and make orders for the maintenance of the chantry and the provision of the poor people as they are all begging for their bread.
- Nature of endorsement
- Because it is witnessed that the advowson of the hospital pertains to the mayor and bailiffs of Berwick let it be ordered to them by a writ that they make such redress and amendment upon the things contained in this petition so that the king doesn't have to intervene in their default
- Places mentioned
- Berwick-upon-Tweed, [Northumberland]
- Bannockburn, [Scotland]
- People mentioned
- Philip de Ridale (Rydal)
- Thomas Paynton, clerk
- Edmond de Londres (London)
- Robert de Brus, King of Scotland
- William de Rokesburgh (Roxburgh)
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition obviously post dates the recapture of Berwick, and probably precedes SC 8/33/1608 where the master of the house is recorded as desperately trying to repair the damage inflicted on the buildings by the siege machines. Fraser also notes that Roxburgh was in prison in Newcastle in 1335, so must have been deprived by then (Northern Petitions, pp.82-3).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For another petition by the same petitioners see SC 8/33/1608
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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 681
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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)
- Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), pp.80-2 (no.49) (full edition of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9061856/
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