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Osbert Chamberlain. Chamberlain Osbert The King. The petitioner seeks recovery of...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/100/4962
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/100/4962
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1305]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Osbert Chamberlain.
- Name(s)
- Chamberlain, Osbert
- Addressees
- The King.
- Nature of request
- The petitioner seeks recovery of the houses that belonged to William de Scotland on the Ness, rendering 30s each year as he did previously. He shows that at the first establishment of the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed he took (by the king's charter) the houses that belonged to William for 30s each year and was seised thereof for years and days. The king's agents have ousted the petitioner and entrusted the houses to Spicer for 6d per year to the king's damage and the disinheritance of the petitioner.
- Nature of endorsement
- [On face] For Osbert Chamberlain.[On dorse] 1) He is to show the charter. 2) Before the keeper, that enquiry be made of the position of both, namely the tenant and the claimant.
- Places mentioned
- Berwick-upon-Tweed, [Northumberland].
- People mentioned
- William de Scotland
- Simon le Spicer.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Firmly datable by reference to PROME, roll 12, appendix, no. 403 (full edition and translation)
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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 1744
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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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- Documents Illustrative of the History of Scotland, vol. II, ed. J. Stevenson, (, 1870), pp.159-60 (full edition and translation)
- The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), roll 12, appendix, no. 403 (full edition and translation)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149529/
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