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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Thomas Rydale of Berwick. Rydale Thomas King and council. Thomas Rydale of Berwick,...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/69/3429
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This record is about the Thomas Rydale of Berwick. Rydale Thomas King and council. Thomas Rydale of Berwick,... dating from [c. 1366] 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 8/69/3429
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1366]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Thomas Rydale of Berwick.
- Name(s)
- Rydale, Thomas
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Thomas Rydale of Berwick, who has been imprisoned for four years in various places, without knowing the reason, and who is now in the Marshalsea, asks the King and council, in the light of the King's recent commandment that justice and common law be done to all manner of people, that he might come before the council or the King's justices, and know the reason for his imprisonment, and that he might be able to answer to the charges made against him. He also asks that he might be released on mainprise in the meantime.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Berwick-upon-Tweed, [Northumberland]
- Marshalsea prison, [Southwark, Surrey].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated on the guard to c.1366, with reference to Rot. Scot., vol. I p.903 (related order dated 15 June 1366). The petition would seem to predate this order. Bain, however, dates the petition to 1370.
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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 6867
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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 Documents Relating to Scotland, vol. IV, 1357-1509, Ed. J. Bain, (Her Majesty's General Register House, 1888), no.176 (calendar of petition)
- Rotuli Scotiae, vol. I, Ed. D. Macpherson, (Eyre & Strahan, 1814), p.903 (orders to the chancellor and keeper of Berwick to restore the goods of Thomas de Rydale)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9107200/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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