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Prioress and the convent of nuns of Berwick-upon-Tweed. King. The prioress and convent...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/92/4580
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This record is about the Prioress and the convent of nuns of Berwick-upon-Tweed. King. The prioress and convent... dating from [1334] 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 8/92/4580
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1334]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Prioress and the convent of nuns of Berwick-upon-Tweed.
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- The prioress and convent request remedy concerning a rent within the town of Berwick which they received until the present and which is in the king's hand, and of fisheries which they are ousted from by the bishop of Durham; and of a rent in Dilston of which they are ousted by the escheator.1)
- Nature of endorsement
- Concerning to the 40 marks rent they say that King David, late king of Scotland gave that rent to them at their foundation and were seised until the sheriff removed them, and that they were in the town all the time of the rent, and did not remise it.2) And concerning to the other lands and tenements which are in Northumberland they should sue to the king.3) They should have a writ to the sheriff of Berwick to pay them the rent if it was taken into the king's hand for this reason, and should hold it as it was held previously, saving the king's right.
- Places mentioned
- Berwick-upon-Tweed, [Northumberland]
- Waltham Weters fishery [unidentified]
- Whittl. . . fishery [unidentified]
- Dilston, Northumberland.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition can be dated to 1334 by the writ issued to the sheriff of Berwick to pay the rent 4 March 1334 (Rot. Scot., vol. I, pp.265-6).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For another petition by the same petitioners on the same matter see SC 8/33/1609
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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 573
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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)
- Rotuli Scotiae, vol. I, Ed. D. Macpherson, (Eyre & Strahan, 1814), p.267 (writ to the sheriff of Berwick to pay the 40 marks rent)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149128/
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