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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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John Hayward. Hayward John King and council. Hayward requests remedy as the mayor...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/83/4114
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/83/4114
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1320]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John Hayward.
- Name(s)
- Hayward, John
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Hayward requests remedy as the mayor and other burgesses of Berwick are obliged to him in 80 marks by a recognizance for passage, pesage and tronage in Berwick which amounts to 300 marks before the town fell, but he has been unable to have a writ from the English Chancery for the debt to be met from the goods of the burgesses wherever they are in England.1)
- Nature of endorsement
- It is necessary that this remain until something can be ordained.2) Coram magno consilio.
- Places mentioned
- Berwick-upon-Tweed, [Northumberland].
- People mentioned
- Walter de Goswyk, late mayor of Berwick
- Chancellor of Scotland
- Burgesses of Berwick.
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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 4313
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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)
- Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), pp.51-52 (no.25) (full edition of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9148656/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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