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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
SC 8/200/9967
Date
[1300-1301]
Description
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.
Related material

For a subsequent petition to move this borough to Newton Arlosh see SC 8/257/12818

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
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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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9295856/

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