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Bailiffs and burgesses of Newcastle upon Tyne. King. The bailiffs and burgesses request...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/227/11348
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This record is about the Bailiffs and burgesses of Newcastle upon Tyne. King. The bailiffs and burgesses request... dating from [1310] 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 8/227/11348
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1310]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Bailiffs and burgesses of Newcastle upon Tyne.
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- The bailiffs and burgesses request that the king will provide a remedy for Burgh who has been arrested at Stralsund by the echevins and burgesses and send his letters patent to them. He was arrested because he was thought to be involved in an assault made on their fellows off of Bamburgh. The bailiffs and burgesses have attested that Burgh was with the sailors of the Cinque Ports off of the coast of France at the time, but the echevins and burgesses have ignored this.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None].
- Places mentioned
- Newcastle upon Tyne, [Northumberland]
- Stralsund, [Germany]
- Bamburgh, [Northumberland]
- Cinque Ports
- France.
- People mentioned
- Thomas de Burgh, burgess and mariner of Newcastle upon Tyne
- Echevins and burgesses of Stralsund
- Sailors of the Cinque Ports.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition dates to 1310 as Edward II authorized his Chancery to make representations to the échevins and burgesses on 13 September 1310 (CCW 1244-1326, p.325).
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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)
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- Ancient Petitions Relating to Northumberland, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CLXXI, 1961), pp.235-6 (no.209) (full edition of petition)
- Calendar of Chancery Warrants, 1244-1326, (Public Record Office, 1927), p.325 (mandate to make letters to the echevins and burgesses of Stralsund)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9334908/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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