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Mayor and commons of Newcastle upon Tyne. King and council. The petitioners state...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/65/3203

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This record is about the Mayor and commons of Newcastle upon Tyne. King and council. The petitioners state... dating from [1376] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/65/3203
Date
[1376]
Description
Petitioners
Mayor and commons of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
The petitioners state that before Candlemas last the Prior of the Hospital of St John in England and his council and representatives of the Mayor and commons of Newcastle were examined before the king's council on the matter of a special assize concerning tenements in Fenham, and it was found that the Prior had corrupted this assize through bribery and through the influence of the Sheriff, who is his nephew. The council therefore ordered that there would be no writ to proceed in this assize before an enquiry had been held into these tenements. The Mayor and commons sued for a commission for this enquiry until the ninth day before Easter, when they were told to come back during parliament. They request delivery of this commission, and a writ to the justices of the assize to suspend proceedings in the meantime.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Newcastle upon Tyne, [Northumberland]
Fenham, [Northumberland]
Elswick, [Northumberland].
People mentioned
[Robert Hales], Prior of the Hospital of St John in England (Knights Hsopitallers)
the Sheriff of Nothumberland
the Prior of Tynemouth
Thomas de Middelton (Middleton), clerk of Chancery.
Note
Dated to 1376 in Northumberland Petitions, pp. 82-4 (no. 64), and enrolled on the roll of the parliament of April 1376 (Rot. Parl. vol. II, pp.348b-349a).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 6043
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Ancient Petitions Relating to Northumberland, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CLXXI, 1961), pp.82-84 (no.64) (full edition and references)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.348b-349a (transcription of petition on parliament roll, text modified)
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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9106966/

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