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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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? No Petitioner named Copy of the record of the imprisonment of Helen Merchant for...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/60/2988
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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Copy of the record of the imprisonment of Helen Merchant for... dating from [1319-1323] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/60/2988
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1319-1323]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- ? No Petitioner named
- Nature of request
- Copy of the record of the imprisonment of Helen Merchant for assisting in the escape of Peyntour, a Scot, from the gaol of Newcastle where he had been delivered into the custody of the sheriff of Northumberland by Glenkarny who had been granted his ransom.
- Nature of endorsement
- She should have a writ in Chancery to make the body and the indictment come before the king.
- Places mentioned
- Northumberland
- Newcastle upon Tyne, [Northumberland].
- People mentioned
- Helen [Marchaunt (Merchant)], wife of John Marchaunt
- John Marchaunt, husband of the petitioner
- John le Peyntour
- Gilbert de Glenkarny
- John de Fenwyk (Fenwick), Sheriff of Northumberland.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is ascribed the date 1319-23 by Fraser (Northumberland Petitions, pp.67-8) based on the dates of Fenwick's period as sheriff. Although he did have a second term as sheriff from 1325-7, there is no reason to question this date, and no evidence to date it more precisely.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For the petition to which this copy of record was attached see SC 8/60/2987
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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 5554
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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)
- Latin
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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)
- Ancient Petitions Relating to Northumberland, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CLXXI, 1961), pp.67-8 (no.51b) (full edition of record)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9063209/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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