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Alexander de Bergh. de Bergh Alexander King and council. Bergh states that Wauwayn...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/166/8282
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/166/8282
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1327]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Alexander de Bergh.
- Name(s)
- de Bergh, Alexander
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Bergh states that Wauwayn and Barde had the keeping of the town and castle of Scarborough for £120 yearly at the Exchequer, until Wauwayn went to Portchester, and by alliance with Despenser and Clif, so that Despenser might have the petitioner's manor of Hatterboard Hill, ousted Barde and obtained a commission in the petitioner's name of the keeping of the castle and town of Scarborough for £120 yearly, which he knew nothing about, and Wauwayn kept the commission in his possession long afterwards, and levied a great sum of money from the issues after the date of the commission, and then delivered the commission to the petitioner. The treasurer and barons intend to charge the petitioner in his account with the issues received by Wauwayn after the date of the commission. The petitioner therefore request that they have consideration for the damages which he sustained from the Scots and of Wauwayn's poverty, and that the debts which he and Wauwayn owe for the farm and for victuals delivered to them in the late king's time be postponed.
- Nature of endorsement
- Since Wauwayn has testified before the council that he purchased such a commission in the absence of Bergh, and in regard for Bergh's losses, his petition is granted and the debt installed at £10 yearly.
- Places mentioned
- Scarborough, [North Riding of Yorkshire]
- Portchester, [Hampshire]
- Hatterboard Hill, [North Riding of Yorkshire]
- Scotland
- Byland, [North Riding of Yorkshire]
- Rievaulx, [North Riding of Yorkshire].
- People mentioned
- Robert Wauwayn
- William Barde
- Hugh le Despenser the son
- William de Clif.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- See Rot. Parl. Hac. Ined., pp. 174-5.
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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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- Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. I, 1327-1330, (Public Record Office, 1896), p.45 (order to treasurer and barons of the Exchequer that the debt has been installed at £10 yearly)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum Anglie Hactenus Inediti, Ed. H.G. Richardson and G.O. Sayles, (Camden Society, 3rd Series, vol. LI, 1935), pp. 174-175 (no. 64) (full edition of petition)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.439a (no.79) (English edition of similar petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294127/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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