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People of the town of Scarborough. King. The people of the town complain that the...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/175/8728
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This record is about the People of the town of Scarborough. King. The people of the town complain that the... dating from [? 1287-? 1297] 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 8/175/8728
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Date (When the record was created)
- [? 1287-? 1297]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- People of the town of Scarborough.
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- The people of the town complain that the justices in the eyre of Pickering Forest, at the request of the earl of Lancaster, took £10 from them wrongfully to leave them in peace, and have since distrained them to come to Pickering to plead against their charter. This would be against the custom established by the charter, and if the king suffers them to plead outside of their town then they will be at the mercy of the verderers and foresters, the town will be destroyed, and the king will lose the issues of justice.1)
- Nature of endorsement
- Coram domino rege.2) Coram consilio domini rege.3) Elsewhere in the roll.
- Places mentioned
- Scarborough, [North Riding of Yorkshire]
- Pickering forest, [North Riding of Yorkshire]
- Pickering, [North Riding of Yorkshire].
- People mentioned
- William Wythre (Wither), justice of the eyre of the forest of Pickering
- Roger Brabazon, justice of the eyre of the forest of Pickering
- Edmund [Crouchback, earl of Lancaster], brother of the king.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition has been dated to? 1287-? 1297 in accordance with the guard notes which link the dating of this petitions to a reference to Wither and Brabazon, the justices mentioned in the petition being assigned to be justices in eyre of the forest in Lancashire at the request of the earl of Leicester in 1287, and on a reference to an order to the sheriff of Yorkshire to deliver the fines and amercements raised in the forest eyre in Yorkshire to the earl in 1295 (CPR 1281-92, p.263; CCR 1288-96, p.420).
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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 I, vol. III, 1288-1296, (Public Record Office, 1904), p.420 (order to the sheriff of Yorkshire to deliver the ransoms and amercements due to the earl from the eyre of the forest in that county)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. II, 1281-1292, (Public Record Office, 1893), p.263 (appointment of Wither and Brabazon as justices in eyre in the forest in the county of Lancaster at the request of the earl of Leicester)
- The Honor and Forest of Pickering, North Riding Record Society, new series,, Ed. R.B. Turton, (North Riding Record Society, 1896), pp.229-30 (full edition and translation of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294596/
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