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Burgesses of Berwick. King and council. 1) The burgesses request remedy of le Berfrai...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/93/4612
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/93/4612
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1337]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Burgesses of Berwick.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- 1) The burgesses request remedy of le Berfrai which Tughale has seized and collected the revenues from, though they and their forefathers were in possession of it for a long time.2) They also request remedy concerning the collection of cannage from the harbour, which money was used to repair the harbour, but Tughale takes all the issues so the harbour is on the point of being lost.3) They request remedy as since the fall of Berwick Bridge they have been quit of ferry charges, the ferrymen will not allow any burgess to cross without paying passage by order of Tughale.4) From the time of King Alexander they have been quit of all kinds of gauging of wine and cloth, but Tughale makes them pay gauge and tronage.5) They request remedy concerning the great charges levied on them on their money and merchandise when they come to English ports to their great impoverishment, being of low estate by reason of the war.6) The burgesses request that they be granted that they be quit of tonnage throughout England when they trade, and the same be granted for English goods at Berwick, as it used to be in the time of King Alexander.
- Nature of endorsement
- Petitions of Scotland delivered at Newcastle.
- Places mentioned
- Berwick-upon-Tweed, [Northumberland]
- Newcastle upon Tyne, [Northumberland].
- People mentioned
- Simon Maunsel
- Robert de Tuggal (Tughale), sheriff of Berwickshire.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition dates to 1337 when the matter of le Berfreyt was settled (Rot. Scot., vol. II, pp.493-4). In addition, Tughale was replaced as sheriff of Berwickshire on 2 August 1338, so that the petition cannot be any later than that date (Fraser, Northern Petitions, p.26).
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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 684
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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)
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- Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), pp.23-6 (no.11) (full edition of petition)
- Rotuli Scotiae, vol. I, Ed. D. Macpherson, (Eyre & Strahan, 1814), 493-4 (writ to the keeper and chamberlain of Berwick to hear the pleas of the burgesses and restore le Berfrai)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149163/
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