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William Gettour of Berwick-upon-Tweed. Gettour William King and council The petitioner...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/48/2386
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This record is about the William Gettour of Berwick-upon-Tweed. Gettour William King and council The petitioner... dating from [1315] 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 8/48/2386
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1315]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- William Gettour of Berwick-upon-Tweed.
- Name(s)
- Gettour, William
- Addressees
- King and council
- Nature of request
- The petitioner seeks the arrest of certain Flemings in the power of the count of Flanders until restitution be made for his goods that were on board his ship called the le Messager of Berwick, because on 15 March 1315 they took the ship from near the shore off Dunwich (whilst it was en route for Flanders) with the goods of the petitioner and his fellows on board: 100 sacks of wool worth 1100 marks (11 marks per sack); 400 cowhides and oxhides worth £50; 10 sacks of wool-fells worth £50; the ship worth £80, and 100 salmon worth 10 marks, and headed for Flanders after killing 15 men they found on board.
- Nature of endorsement
- Because this petition concerns Flanders it is to be handed over to the lord William de Ayremyne who is in Flanders on business.
- Places mentioned
- Berwick-upon-Tweed, [Northumberland]
- Flaundres (Flanders)
- Donwych (Dunwich), [Suffolk].
- People mentioned
- William de Ayremyne.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Firmly dated by reference to CCR 1313-18, p.227.
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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 3590
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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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- Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. II, 1313-1318, (Public Record Office, 1893), p.227 (writ to the count of Hainault in support of the petitioner)
- Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), pp.47-9 (no.23) (full edition of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062598/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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