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William de Brunton, merchant of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. de Brunton William King and...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/92/4599

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Reference
SC 8/92/4599
Date
[1335]
Description
Petitioners
William de Brunton, merchant of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Name(s)
de Brunton, William
Addressees
King and council.
Places mentioned
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, [Northumberland]
Berwick-upon-Tweed, [Northumberland].
Nature of request
Brunton requests the king's aid as the king appointed him mayor of Berwick after its conquest and made him attend solely to it and since that time he has been unable to trade his merchandises throughout the realm whereby he has lost greatly, and has been put to great expense in the defence of the town, and without aid he will been unable to maintain his office.
Nature of endorsement
He should have £10 as the mayors were accustomed to have as their fee, and a further £10 of the king's gift, and a writ is to be ordered to the chamberlain there to pay him.
Note
Fraser, Northern Petitions, dates this petition to 1335 making it contemporary to a grant of £40 made to the petitioner to compensate him for sums that he had been put to in the defence of Berwick (Rot. Scot., vol. I, p.382). The dating must be about 1335 as the petition refers to the recapture of Berwick, but the grant recorded in Rotuli Scotiae is clearly not in response to this petition.
Related material

For another petition perhaps by the same petitioner see SC 8/207/10343

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 621
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), pp.88-9 (no.57) (full edition of petition)
  • Rotuli Scotiae, vol. I, Ed. D. Macpherson, (Eyre & Strahan, 1814), p.382a (order to pay the mayor £40)
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