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The burgesses of Durham, Darlington, Bishop Auckland, Gateshead and Stockton King...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/43/2149

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Reference
SC 8/43/2149
Date
[c. 1334]
Description
Petitioners
The burgesses of Durham, Darlington, Bishop Auckland, Gateshead and Stockton
Addressees
King and council
Nature of request
The burgesses of Durham, Darlington, Bishop Auckland, Gateshead and Stockton state that although they are free burgesses and not liable to tallage, the keepers of the temporalities have tallaged them during vacancies in the bishopric since the time of Edward I, and have continued to do so, taking more than £60 in this last vacancy after the death of Bishop Louis. They ask that they might be quit of such tallage in future, and that the tallage they have paid before now might not be taken as a precedent.
Nature of endorsement
The Treasurer and Barons are to be ordered by writ of the great seal to search the rolls and remembrances of the Exchequer concerning this thing, and to inform Chancery when these tallages begun, and for what reason, and when this has been returned in Chancery, the Chancellor, calling to himself the justices and others of the council, is further to do justice.
Places mentioned
Duresme (Durham), [County Durham]
Darlington, [County Durham]
Aukland (Bishop Auckland), [County Durham]
Gateshead, [County Durham]
Stockton, [County Durham]
the franchise (liberty) of Durham
People mentioned
Edward [I], King of England
Louis [de Beaumont], Bishop of Durham
Note
Dated on the guard to 'c. 1333 seq.', with reference to the death of Louis de Beaumont. As he died in 1333 and his successor, Robert de Bury, was in place by December of that year, the petition, which seems to refer to the vacancy in the past tense, would appear to be from shortly afterwards.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 2552
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.165-6 (no.124) (full edition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062355/

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