Tenants of Shoreston and North Sunderland. King and council. The tenants request...

Petitioners

Tenants of Shoreston and North Sunderland.

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

The tenants request that the constable of Bamburgh Castle be ordered that the tenants be quit of their farm, and quit them of the charges taken from them for their refuge in the castle. They are dependent on Bamburgh Castle and have been destroyed by the Scottish enemies. They petitioned concerning their farm, and Fenwick was ordered to examine which tenants could render the farm, but since then they have suffered further burnings, and their women and children have been taken.1)

Nature of endorsement

It pleases the king that they should have of his grace a pardon of their farm and for other works for a year, and they should have a writ under the great seal on this.2) Concerning the lodging it pleases the king that it be ordered by a writ of the great seal to the constable that from now he should not exact from them for their lodging.3) Coram rege et magno consilio.

Places mentioned

Shoreston, [Northumberland]

North Sunderland, [Northumberland]

Bamburgh, [Northumberland].

People mentioned

John de Fenwyk (Fenwick)

Roger de Horseley, Constable of Bamburgh Castle.

For a later petition on the same matter see SC 8/11/506

For a petition on a similar matter see SC 8/32/1565

• Ancient Petitions Relating to Northumberland, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CLXXI, 1961), pp.182-3 (no.157) (full edition of petition)
• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1318-1323, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.40 (order to the constable of the castle to acquit the tenants of the sums demanded from them)
• Documents Illustrative of English History in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, selected from the Records of the Department of the Queen's Remembrancer of the Exchequer, Ed. H. Cole, (Record Commission, 1844), p.45 (transcript of Latin summary of petition and response from parliament roll)