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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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John de Denum. de Denum John King. The petitioner seeks help through wages or otherwise...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/105/5208
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This record is about the John de Denum. de Denum John King. The petitioner seeks help through wages or otherwise... dating from [c. 1320-c. 1326] 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 8/105/5208
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1320-c. 1326]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John de Denum.
- Name(s)
- de Denum, John
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- The petitioner seeks help through wages or otherwise until times change, because all the country around would suffer great peril and loss if [Melmerby Tower] were taken through lack of a garrison. He states that he holds Melmerby Tower in Cumberland, which could be held by a dozen men-at-arms. He has kept it until now and has often been assaulted by the Scots to their great loss, [but] his lands are so ruined (there and elsewhere) that he can no longer bear the expense.
- Nature of endorsement
- Take advice on any marriage, wardship or farm and certify to the king therein, and he by good council will make any award by which he has the power to better keep [the tower] to the saving of the land.
- Places mentioned
- Melmerby, [Cumberland].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated by Fraser, Northern Petitions, pp.137-8.
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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 2513
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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)
- Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), pp.137-8 (no.104) (edition of petition with references)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149778/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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