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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Burgesses of Hedon in Holderness. King and council. The burgesses of Hedon in Holderness...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/51/2524
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This record is about the Burgesses of Hedon in Holderness. King and council. The burgesses of Hedon in Holderness... dating from [1338] 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 8/51/2524
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1338]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Burgesses of Hedon in Holderness.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The burgesses of Hedon in Holderness state that they hold their town of the king at farm, paying £20 annually, but have no means of profit except for payments for the landing of ships and boats in a water-course leading to the town, which they have had from time immemorial, and that some of the king's tenants of Burstwick have now made two trenches in the banks of this water-course, in the meadows of the vill of Ryhill, diverting the water and preventing ships and boats from coming to their town. They ask that these trenches be stopped up and the water returned to its proper course.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Hedon, [East Riding of Yorkshire]
- Holderness, [East Riding of Yorkshire]
- Brustewyk (Burstwick), [East Riding of Yorkshire]
- Ryhill, [East Riding of Yorkshire].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- CPR 1338-40 pp.66-7 is dated at Westminster, 20 February 1338.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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A note naming the justices to be appointed for this is SC 8/51/2523
For a related petition from Margery, widow of Robert de Botheby, also harmed by this, is SC 8/51/2525
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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 3986
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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)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. IV, 1338-1340, (Public Record Office, 1898), pp.66-7 (commission of oyer and terminer on the complaints of Margery, widow of Robert de Botheby and of the king's burgesses of Hedon)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062739/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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