Thomas de Fetherstanhalgh. de Fetherstanhalgh Thomas King. Thomas de Fetherstanhalgh...

Petitioners

Thomas de Fetherstanhalgh.

Name(s)

de Fetherstanhalgh, Thomas

Addressees

King.

Nature of request

Thomas de Fetherstanhalgh makes a number of requests relating to the building of a peel at Staward.1) He states that, whereas he undertook to build and repair the peel at Staward for £100, he is no longer able to do so without ruining himself, as wood and stone are hard to carry to the peel.2) He also states that there are no stores at Staward, and asks that these be replenished.3) He only has the keeping of the peel until the following feast of St Peter, and asks how the peel will be defended thereafter, and by whom.4) He requests letters of protection for Cape, his surveyor of works, for as long as he remains in service.

Nature of endorsement

[None]

Places mentioned

Stauworth (Staward), [Northumberland]

March of Scotland.

People mentioned

Alan Cape, surveyor of works.

For a related enrolment see m.56 and m.117 of E 159/102

• Ancient Petitions Relating to Northumberland, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CLXXI, 1961), pp.25-26 (no. 21) (edition and calendar of petition, with discussion)
• Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), pp.276-277 (further discussion)