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Adam de Ryston. de Ryston Adam King and council. Ryston requests remedy for the trespass...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/154/7673
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This record is about the Adam de Ryston. de Ryston Adam King and council. Ryston requests remedy for the trespass... dating from [c. 1296] 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 8/154/7673
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1296]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Adam de Ryston.
- Name(s)
- de Ryston, Adam
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Ryston requests remedy for the trespass done to him by Spaldington who evicted his men from his houses and given them to others. He requests letters to Spaldington to restore the houses so that he may hold them for the customary rent as other people hold them, and he requests that the treasurer by instructed to provide him with a charter as others have, as he cannot go to obtain one. He states that Spaldington has received 28s. rent.
- Nature of endorsement
- He should have a writ to the treasurer of Berwick to enquire of this and do justice on what he finds.
- Places mentioned
- Berwick-upon-Tweed, [Northumberland].
- People mentioned
- Osbert de Spaldynton (Spaldington), keeper of the town of Berwick.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition dates to c. 1296 as Spaldington was appointed keeper of Berwick on 16 May 1296 (Rot. Scot., vol. I, p.23b).
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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)
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- Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), pp.76-7 (no.45) (edition and calendar of petition)
- Rotuli Scotiae, vol. I, Ed. D. Macpherson, (Eyre & Strahan, 1814), p.23b (appointment of Spaldington as keeper of the castle and town and sheriff of Berwick)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9209862/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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