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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Hervey de Doway, burgess of Berwick. de Doway Hervey Council. The petitioner requests...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/107/5328
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This record is about the Hervey de Doway, burgess of Berwick. de Doway Hervey Council. The petitioner requests... dating from [c. 1333] 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 8/107/5328
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1333]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Hervey de Doway, burgess of Berwick.
- Name(s)
- de Doway, Hervey
- Addressees
- Council.
- Nature of request
- The petitioner requests that, whereas the agreement made at Berwick by the king has been confirmed in all points, whereby each burgess may have his rights as in the time of King Alexander, John Leche has attempted possession of a tenement in the town which the petitioner bought from the right heir.
- Nature of endorsement
- Results of an inquiry into the matter, and a memorandum for a writ to the sheriff of Berwick to deliver the said tenement.
- Places mentioned
- Berwick-upon-Tweed, [Northumberland]
- People mentioned
- John Leche
- Alexander [III], King of Scotland.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated tentatively by Fraser, Northern Petitions, pp. 11-12, to c. 1333 on the basis that the petition must have been made after the surrender of the town by the Scots to Edward III in that year.
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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 2802
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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.11-12 (no.2) (full edition of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149898/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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