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Richard of Bury, Bishop of Durham. Bury Richard King and council. Bishop of Durham...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/261/13028
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/261/13028
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1334]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Richard of Bury, Bishop of Durham.
- Name(s)
- Bury, Richard
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Occupation
- Bishop of Durham
- Nature of request
- Richard, Bishop of Durham, states that when, in the time of the King's grandfather, the bridge at Berwick-upon-Tweed was broken, it was agreed between the then King of Scotland and the Bishop of Durham that the King would have a ferry from Berwick to Tweedmouth, and the Bishop would have a ferry from Tweedmouth to Berwick, and that the profits would be shared equally between the King and the Bishop. This continued until the sixth year of the present King's reign, when David de Bruys rose up against the King and burnt and destroyed Tweedmouth. And then when Berwick came into the King's hand the temporalities of the bishopric of Durham were also in his hand after the death of Bishop Lewis, and so the King's ministers have had the entire profit of the ferry since then, to the disinheritance of his church of Durham. He requests a remedy.
- Nature of endorsement
- The Sheriff and other ministers of Berwick are to be ordered that, if they can find by good inquisition of people both of Scotland and of England that the Bishop was seised of the ferry before the time of Robert de Bruys, they are to let the Bishop's ministers have the ferry in future as his predecessors had, and to cease to commit such oppressions against the people.
- Places mentioned
- Berwick-upon-Tweed, [Northumberland]
- Tweedmouth, [Northumberland].
- People mentioned
- Edward [I], King of England
- [John Balliol], King of Scotland
- [Anthony Bek], Bishop of Durham
- Lewis (Louis) [de Beaumont], Bishop of Durham
- David de Bruys (Brus, Bruce)
- Robert [I] de Bruys (Brus, Bruce), [King of Scotland].
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- CPR 1334-8 pp.395-396 is dated 12 March 1337, and exemplifies a writ of 15 June, 8 Edward III (1334), which would seem to have been issued in response to this petition.
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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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- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. III, 1334-1338, (Public Record Office, 1895), pp.395-396 (exemplification of a writ ordering restoration of this ferry to the Bishop)
- Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), pp.36-8 (no.16) (full edition of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9516972/
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