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Abbot of Holmcultram (Abbey Town). [Not specified] Abbot of Holmcultram (Abbey Town)...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/200/9967
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This record is about the Abbot of Holmcultram (Abbey Town). [Not specified] Abbot of Holmcultram (Abbey Town)... dating from [1300-1301] 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 8/200/9967
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1300-1301]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Abbot of Holmcultram (Abbey Town).
- Addressees
- [Not specified]
- Occupation
- Abbot of Holmcultram (Abbey Town)
- Nature of request
- The Abbot of Holmcultram requests a free borough, a market, and fair and a sea port at Skinburness and Salthous within the limits of his island of Holmcultram, with all the liberties and free customs pertaining to these things.
- Nature of endorsement
- It is to be done by a fine of 100 marks; and the fine is to be entered in the rolls of Chancery. Afterwards, at the command of the Treasurer, the aforesaid fine was entered at the Exchequer in the memoranda roll for the twenty-eighth year, and not in Chancery.
- Places mentioned
- Holmcultram (Abbey Town), Cumberland
- Skinburness, Cumberland
- Salthous [unidentified], Cumberland.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- CChR 1300-26, p.2 is dated 12 February 1301, and would seem to be in response to this petition. However, 28 Edward I, noted in the endorsement, ran from 20 November 1299 to 19 November 1300, suggesting that the petition may have been presented slightly earlier. Salthous may possibly be a variant spelling for neighbouring Silloth, but is perhaps most likely to be a lost place next to Skinburness, now washed into the sea. The borough was indeed transferred to Newton Arlosh in 1305, after the original site was partly washed away and became uninhabitable.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a subsequent petition to move this borough to Newton Arlosh see SC 8/257/12818
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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)
- Latin
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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)
- Calendar of Charter Rolls, vol. III, Edw I and Edw II, 1300-1326, (Public Record Office, 1908), p.2 (grant of free borough, market and fair at Skinburness) & p.55 (grant to move this borough to Newton Arlosh)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9295856/
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