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Adam Schankis (Schankes), burgess of Berwick-upon-Tweed. Schankis (Schankes) Adam...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/142/7076
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This record is about the Adam Schankis (Schankes), burgess of Berwick-upon-Tweed. Schankis (Schankes) Adam... 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 8/142/7076
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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 Schankis (Schankes), burgess of Berwick-upon-Tweed.
- Name(s)
- Schankis (Schankes), Adam
- Addressees
- Council.
- Nature of request
- Adam Schankis, burgess of Berwick upon Tweed, states that he had at farm all the salmon fisheries in the River Tweed belonging to the Abbot and convent of Dryburgh for a term of five years, commencing at Pentecost 1332, of which term one year has passed last Pentecost. He asks that he might complete this term.
- Nature of endorsement
- They say that the aforesaid Abbot and convent by their deed, shown here to the court, demised the fisheries to Adam for a term of five years, paying 9 marks and 12 salmon annually, and that one year of this was passed last Pentecost, and that he was seised from that term until he was removed by the Sheriff, and that he was in the town of Berwick 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 the fisheries to him, to hold until the end of the aforesaid term, so that he pays the aforesaid rent to the King during the term, saving the right of each person.
- Places mentioned
- Berwick-upon-Tweed, [Northumberland]
- Dryburgh, [Roxburghshire, Scotland]
- River Tweed.
- People mentioned
- Abbot and convent of Dryburgh.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- If the petitioner took the fisheries for a term of five years, commencing at Pentecost 1332, of which one year has passed, this petition must date from between Pentecost 1333 and Pentecost 1334. From the hand and the similar endorsement, this petition would seem to be contemporary with SC 8/142/7073: 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 8/142/7073
For a similar petition about fisheries in the Tweed, see SC 8/296/14795
For a similar later petition from the petitioner and another burgess of Berwick about these fisheries and others, 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.73-4 (no.42) (full edition of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9209255/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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