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Adam Scankys (Schankes), burgess of Berwick-upon-Tweed. Scankys (Schankes) Adam Council....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/142/7073
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This record is about the Adam Scankys (Schankes), burgess of Berwick-upon-Tweed. Scankys (Schankes) Adam Council.... dating from [1333-1334] 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 8/142/7073
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1333-1334]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Adam Scankys (Schankes), burgess of Berwick-upon-Tweed.
- Name(s)
- Scankys (Schankes), Adam
- Addressees
- Council.
- Places mentioned
- Berwick-upon-Tweed, [Northumberland]
- River Tweed.
- Nature of request
- Adam Scankys, burgess of Berwick upon Tweed, states that at Martinmas 1332 he took the fisheries called 'Totyngford', 'la Lawe' and 'Callet' in the River Tweed, which belong to the hospital of St Mary Magdalen in Berwick, for a term of three years, of which one year has passed. He has paid some of the money for this beforehand, and asks that he might be able to complete his term.
- Nature of endorsement
- They say that the Master of the said Hospital demised the said fisheries to the aforesaid Adam for the term of three years by his deed, which he has shown here to the court, paying 23 marks annually, and that one year has passed, and that he was seised from that term until he was removed by the Sheriff, and that he was in the town of Berwick upon Tweed on the day of its surrender and that he did not remise etc.He is to have a writ to the Sheriff of Berwick to deliver to him the aforesaid fisheries, to hold until the end of the aforesaid term, so that he pays the King the aforesaid rent during the term, saving each person's right.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- If the petitioner took the fisheries at Martinmas [11 November] 1332 for a term of three years, and one has passed, this petition must date from between November 1333 and November 1334. Northern Petitions pp.74-5 (no. 43) dates it slightly earlier, between July and November 1333, assuming that the year will elapse at the following Martinmas: the endorsement, however, seems to suggest that it has already elapsed. From the hand and the similar endorsement, this petition would seem to be contemporary with SC 8/142/7076: SC 8/142/7064 is slightly later.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a similar contemporary petition from the petitioner about different fisheries, see SC 8/142/7076
For a similar petition about fisheries in the Tweed, see SC 8/296/14791
For a similar later petition from the petitioner and another burgess of Berwick about different fisheries, see SC 8/142/7064
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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.74-5 (no.43) (full edition of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9209252/
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