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John Taillour (Tailor), burgess of Berwick upon Tweed. Taillour (Tailor) John King's...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/75/3712

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Reference
SC 8/75/3712
Date
[1324]
Description
Petitioners
John Taillour (Tailor), burgess of Berwick upon Tweed.
Name(s)
Taillour (Tailor), John
Addressees
King's council.
Occupation
burgess of Berwick upon Tweed
Nature of request
John Taillour states that although he came into England at Bishop's Lynn under letters of safe-conduct from the Keepers of the March to maintain the truce, on pilgrimage to Canterbury, the Bailiffs of the Bishop of Norwich arrested him and took his goods and letters. He requests a remedy, so that no English people are arrested in Scotland in retaliation.
Nature of endorsement
He is to have a writ to the Mayor and Bailiffs of Bishop's Lynn containing the effect of this petition, that if John has had such letters of safe-conduct as the petition supposes, they are courteously to permit him to go where he wishes, and to restore his letters to him.
Places mentioned
Berwick upon Tweed, [Northumberland]
Scotland
Bishop's Lynn, [Norfolk]
Canterbury, [Kent].
People mentioned
[Robert de Umfraville, Earl of Angus and Lord] of Prudhoe, Keeper of the March to maintain the truce
Roger de Horsle, Keeper of the March to maintain the truce
the Bailiffs of the Bishop of Norwich.
Note
CCR 1323-7 p.85 is dated 30 March 1324, and is clearly a result of this petition.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 7914
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. IV, 1323-1327, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.85 (order to the Bailiffs of the Bishop of Norwich at Bishop's Lynn to allow the petitioner to go where he will, and to restore his goods and letters to him)
  • Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), pp.71-2 (no.40) (full edition and calendar of petition)
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