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Poor commons of Berwick-upon-Tweed. King and council. Petition of the poor commons...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/209/10424
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This record is about the Poor commons of Berwick-upon-Tweed. King and council. Petition of the poor commons... dating from [1372] 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 8/209/10424
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1372]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Poor commons of Berwick-upon-Tweed.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Petition of the poor commons of Berwick upon Tweed that they be allowed to trade in wool to Scotland at agreed rates of duty, in consideration of the great poverty of the town.
- Nature of endorsement
- The men of Berwick may buy Scottish wools and the wools of those parts of Scotland remaining in the hands of the king of England; they may not sell wool to be exported to Scotland on pain of forfeiture.
- Places mentioned
- Berwick-upon-Tweed, [Northumberland]
- Scotland.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Datable to 1372 by reference to PROME, parliament of 1372, Appendix no. 3.
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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)
- The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), parliament of 1372, Appendix no. 3 (summary of petition and context)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9333981/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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