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Louis de Beaumont, Bishop of Durham. de Beaumont Louis King and Council Bishop of...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/105/5211
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/105/5211
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1331]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Louis de Beaumont, Bishop of Durham.
- Name(s)
- de Beaumont, Louis
- Addressees
- King and Council
- Occupation
- Bishop of Durham
- Nature of request
- The petitioner states that the water of Tweed is the boundary between England and Scotland in many places, and the Scots king had passage by boat to transport men and other things from Berwick to Tweedmouth where they reached the bishop's soil in England. The bishop ought to have similar rights of passage, which used to be worth more than £20 each year to him and his predecessors sede plena and now the king of Scotland maintains the passage by force and disturbs the bishop, who cannot enjoy it, to his loss and to the disinheritance of his church and of the crown. And whereas the king of Scotland has the river bank ... who ought not to anchor in the Tweed for more than one hour, those from Scotland anchor ... whereby the bishop loses the profits of his fishery, to which he is entitled sede plena and the king loses sede vacante, for whereas the franchise of Norham is held of the bishop as by right of his church of Durham a site called ... in the water of Tweed, part of the manor of ... has always been held of the said town, and this has been drawn to the king of Scotland to the damage of the bishop and the disinheritance of his church and of the crown. He sued Robert de Bruce in his time and the keepers of Scotland since about the wrongs ... to make amends and redress and he can have no justice, wherefore he requests a remedy from the king.1)
- Nature of endorsement
- Coram Rege et magno consilio.2) When the time comes the king will order a remedy in this part, now he has not the power.
- Places mentioned
- Scotland
- River Tweed
- Berwick-upon-Tweed, [Northumberland]
- Tweedmouth, [Northumberland]
- Norham, [County Durham].
- People mentioned
- David II, King of Scotland
- Edward III, King of England
- Robert I, late King of Scotland.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated by Fraser, Northern Petitions, pp.34-6.
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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 2585
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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.34-6 (no.15) (edition of petition with references)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149781/
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