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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Roger de Gosewyk, Burgess of the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed; John de Chilton, Burgess...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/50/2470
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This record is about the Roger de Gosewyk, Burgess of the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed; John de Chilton, Burgess... dating from [1305] 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 8/50/2470
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1305]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Roger de Gosewyk, Burgess of the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed; John de Chilton, Burgess of the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed.
- Name(s)
- de Gosewyk; de Chilton, Roger; John
- Addressees
- King and council
- Occupation
- Burgess of the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed
- Nature of request
- The petitioners request remedy. They have bought wool in Northumberland and after paying the customs shipped the wool to Aardenburgh where it was arrested by Courtreye and others because the king ordered his mariners of Sandwich in a boat called la Plente and a barge to keep the Scottish sea to prevent ships entering to aid the enemy, and captured a a boat of Flanders off Aberdeen taking it to Berwick and selling the wool. Courtrey and the others claimed the wool that they arrested was bought of this wool sold at Berwick to the great damage of the petitioners.
- Nature of endorsement
- He should have a writ to the Count of Flanders in the common form.
- Places mentioned
- Berwick-upon-Tweed, [Northumberland]
- Beverley, [East Riding of Yorkshire]
- Aardenburg, [Belgium]
- Flanders, [Belgium]
- Lubeck, [Germany]
- Goten [unidentified], [Germany]
- Sandwich, [Kent]
- Aberdeen, [Aberdeenshire, Scotland].
- People mentioned
- Robert Heron, Parson of Ford and Keeper of the Customs
- John de Courtreye, Burgess of Bruges
- Herman Sidentop of Lubeck
- Tidman Felescape of Goten
- William Langeters, Master of the ship la Plente.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition dates to 1305 as a Latin summary can be found on the parliament roll of spring 1305 (Memoranda de Parliamento, p.193 (no.320)).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For transcript, see p.82 of PRO 31/7/93
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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 3849
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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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- Memoranda de Parliamento, or Records of the Parliament holden at Westminster, 25 Edw I, Ed. F.W. Maitland, (Rolls Series, vol. XCVIII, 1893), p.193 (no.320) (Latin summary of petition on parliament roll)
- Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), pp.45-6 (no.21) (full edition of petition)
- The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), roll 12, appendix, no. 338 (full edition and translation)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062684/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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