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Adam Schankes and Clement Todde, burgesses of Berwick-upon-Tweed. Schankes; Todde...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/142/7064
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This record is about the Adam Schankes and Clement Todde, burgesses of Berwick-upon-Tweed. Schankes; Todde... dating from [1334-1335] 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 8/142/7064
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1334-1335]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Adam Schankes and Clement Todde, burgesses of Berwick-upon-Tweed.
- Name(s)
- Schankes; Todde, Adam; Clement
- Addressees
- Council.
- Occupation
- burgesses of Berwick-upon-Tweed
- Nature of request
- Adam Schankes and Clement Todde, burgesses of Berwick-upon-Tweed, state that Robert de Tughalle, Sheriff of Berwick, took two of their salmon fisheries in the River Tweed, called Aldwaterstelle and Outwaterstelle, as escheats to the King, which they took at farm from the Abbots of Dunfermline and of Dryburgh, for a term of five years from Pentecost 1332, two years of which have passed. They request a remedy, that they might finish their term.
- Nature of endorsement
- Lord Percy, Keeper of Berwick, William de Bevercote, Chancellor of Berwick, and Robert de Tughalle, Sheriff of Berwick, are to be ordered by writ of Chancery to inquire into the things contained in this petition, and if they find their claim true and they are of the condition of townspeople, then the fisheries are to be restored to them, to hold as they held them before, saving the right of the King and of anyone else, paying the King the rent during the aforesaid term.
- Places mentioned
- Berwick-upon-Tweed, [Northumberland]
- River Tweed
- Dunfermline, [Fife, Scotland]
- Dryburgh, [Roxburghshire, Scotland].
- People mentioned
- Robert de Tughalle, Sheriff of Berwick
- the Abbot of Dunfermline
- the Abbot of Dryburgh
- [Henry de Percy], Lord Percy, Keeper of Berwick
- William de Bevercote, Chancellor of Berwick.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petitioners took the fisheries for a term of five years from Pentecost 1332, and two years of this have passed: which dates the petition to 1334-1335.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a similar earlier petition from Adam Schankes about different fisheries, see SC 8/142/7073
For a similar earlier petition from Adam Schankes about some of these fisheries, see SC 8/142/7076
For a similar petition about fisheries in the Tweed, see SC 8/296/14791
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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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.75-6 (no.44) (full edition of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9209243/
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