Burgesses of Berwick upon Tweed. King. The burgesses of Berwick upon Tweed state...

Petitioners

Burgesses of Berwick upon Tweed.

Addressees

King.

Nature of request

The burgesses of Berwick upon Tweed state that, on 17 February in the twelfth year of his reign, the King granted his letters patent that for the next three years they should be able to buy wools, hides, wool-fells, shearlings and lamb-fells growing between the rivers of Coquet and Tweed from whoever they pleased, take them to Berwick, and ship them overseas, paying a certain sum to the King for them. They now ask, in relief of their town, that for the next seven years they might be able to buy wools, hides, wool-fells, shearlings and lamb-fells growing between the rivers of Wansbeck near Morpeth and Tweed, carry them to Berwick and ship them overseas, paying the same sums for them; considering the perilous state of their town, and that a great part of the country between Coquet and Tweed has been laid waste by the Scots, and there is no other merchandise by which they can make a living and support the garrison of the town.

Nature of endorsement

[There is a short illegible note at the foot of the face.][None on dorse]

Places mentioned

Berwick-upon-Tweed, [Northumberland]

River Coquet

River Tweed

River Wansbeck

Morpeth, Northumberland

Scotland.

For another petition from the same petitioners, see SC 8/96/4760