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? No Petitioner named Writ to the mayor of Newcastle upon Tyne ordering representation...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/108/5360B

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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Writ to the mayor of Newcastle upon Tyne ordering representation... dating from [1410] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/108/5360B
Date
[1410]
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Writ to the mayor of Newcastle upon Tyne ordering representation of the town at proceedings before the chancellor concerning the dispute between the town and the bishop of Durham over the bridge across the Tyne.
Nature of endorsement
Notes of process in chancery, with successive adjournments.
Places mentioned
Newcastle upon Tyne, [Northumberland]
Durham, [County Durham].
People mentioned
Richard de Norton, king's serjeant at law
[Thomas Langley,] Bishop of Durham
Roger de Thornton
William Jonson (Johnson)
Robert Gabesore
John Walter
William Redmershill
John Pankyn
Robert Washington
Thomas Smyth (Smith)
Nicholas Wymbyssh
John Thoralby.
Note
The writ is dated 18 June in the eleventh regnal year; from internal references here and in SC 8/108/5360B and SC 8/108/5361, this must be 11 Henry IV, and the calendar year is 1410.
Related material

For the petition on which this writ was based, see SC 8/108/5361

For another writ relating to the same case, see SC 8/108/5360A

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 2878
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149931/

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