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Prior and convent of Tynemouth. King. The petitioners make four requests:1) They...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/76/3761
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This record is about the Prior and convent of Tynemouth. King. The petitioners make four requests:1) They... dating from [c. 1298] 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 8/76/3761
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1298]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Prior and convent of Tynemouth.
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- The petitioners make four requests:1) They request confirmation of their charter.2) They ask the King to pardon them any error committed by any bailiff of the Prior's, contrary to the tenor of their charter, through which the liberty of their church has recently been taken into his hand, and that they might be able to answer to the charges against them.3) They request restoration of their franchise as granted by King Richard, and that where it says in King Richard's charter, 'all men and all lands etc.', vills and places might be specified. And they also ask that how their justices and coroners are henceforth to be created might be specified.4) They request assize of bread and ale at Tynemouth, and the right to sell their victuals, as they always had, there and at North Shields; and that they might be able to load and unload their goods in the Tyne without hindrance, and buy what is necessary for their house in the Tyne, as at North Shields, without hindrance, as they have done since the founding of their house, so that the merchants pay customs only on those things they sell to the Prior and convent.They ask that they might have these things for a reasonable sum, according to the wealth of their house, to be paid at reasonable terms, as they are not to the King's harm or prejudice - as he will find if he inquires into this.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Tynemouth, [Northumberland]
- North Shields, [Northumberland]
- River Tyne.
- People mentioned
- Richard [I], King of England.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated to c. 1298 by Northumberland Petitions pp.9-10 (no.10), with reference to the restoration of the franchise of Tynemouth in February 1299 (CChR 1257-1300 p.475).
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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 8102
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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)
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- Ancient Petitions Relating to Northumberland, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CLXXI, 1961), pp.9-10 (no.10) (edition and calendar of petition)
- Calendar of Charter Rolls, vol. II, Hen III and Edw I, 1257-1300, (Public Record Office, 1906), p.475 (restoration of liberties and free customs, formerly taken into the king's hand, to the Prior and convent of Tynemouth)
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