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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Mayor and Commonalty of Newcastle upon Tyne. King and Council. The Mayor and commons...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/129/6428
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This record is about the Mayor and Commonalty of Newcastle upon Tyne. King and Council. The Mayor and commons... dating from [1378-1380] 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 8/129/6428
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1378-1380]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Mayor and Commonalty of Newcastle upon Tyne.
- Addressees
- King and Council.
- Nature of request
- The Mayor and commons of Newcastle request assistance for the building of a tower and walls on the bridge over the River Tyne, in order to strengthen the defences of the town against the Scots and French. They are unable to do this themselves, as the town has been impoverished and wasted by plague and taxation, as the bishop of Hereford and others well know.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Newcastle upon Tyne, [Northumberland]
- River Tyne
- France.
- People mentioned
- [John Gilbert], Bishop of Hereford
- [Edmund de Mortimer], Earl of March
- [Henry de Percy], Earl of Northumberland
- Richard le Scrope, [Lord Scrope], Chancellor of England.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated by Fraser to the period 1378-80, stating that Scrope was chancellor between October 1378 and January 1380, and presumably the petition was submitted at some point during this period. A commission to survey the defences of Newcastle was issued to the Bishop of Durham, the Earl of Northumberland and others on 4 May 1380, and this may have been in response to this petition.
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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 6060
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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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- Ancient Petitions Relating to Northumberland, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CLXXI, 1961), pp.35-7 (no.30) (full edition of petition, with discussion)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric II, vol. I, 1377-1381, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.510 (commission of enquiry into the defences of Newcastle)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9208607/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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