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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Agnes Burdoun (Burdon), widow of John de Burdoun, sheriff of Berwick. Burdoun (Burdon)...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/90/4499
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This record is about the Agnes Burdoun (Burdon), widow of John de Burdoun, sheriff of Berwick. Burdoun (Burdon)... dating from [c. 1305] 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 8/90/4499
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1305]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Agnes Burdoun (Burdon), widow of John de Burdoun, sheriff of Berwick.
- Name(s)
- Burdoun (Burdon), Agnes
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- Burdoun requests a remedy as the king's ministers have distrained from her lands and tenements for debts for the time when he was sheriff of Berwick, though the king had granted her late husband for his good service that his executors should have free administration of his goods, chattels and movables without disturbance of the king's ministers for any debts from when he was sheriff.
- Nature of endorsement
- She should have a writ to the chamberlain of Scotland just as before.
- Places mentioned
- Berwick, [Northumberland]
- Berwickshire, [Scotland].
- People mentioned
- John Burdoun (Burdon), late sheriff of Berwick.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition probably dates to 1305 as a related petition by the same petitioner was enrolled on the parliament roll of the spring parliament of that year (Memoranda de Parliamento, p.169 (no.271)).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a related petition by the petitioner's executors, see SC 8/294/14651
For transcript, see p.29 of PRO 31/7/93
For another petition by the same petitioner, see SC 8/174/8665
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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 453
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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)
- Memoranda de Parliamento, or Records of the Parliament holden at Westminster, 25 Edw I, Ed. F.W. Maitland, (Rolls Series, vol. XCVIII, 1893), p.169 (no.271) (Latin summary of a related petition by the same petitioner)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149045/
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