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Burgesses of Scarborough. King and council. The burgesses of Scarborough request...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/263/13147
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This record is about the Burgesses of Scarborough. King and council. The burgesses of Scarborough request... dating from [c. 1335] 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 8/263/13147
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1335]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Burgesses of Scarborough.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The burgesses of Scarborough request that whereas by their petition at the last parliament at York they requested remedy for certain lands and tenements wasted by the sea in Scarborough, which lands the King ordered Scarborough, Bergh and Sherburn to enquire into, which inquisition the justices have returned in Chancery, but no execution has been made, that the King and council examine the inquisition and grant a writ to enclose and defend the said lands in salvation of the town.1)
- Nature of endorsement
- Let the inquisition come before the council.2) It should be ordered by writ of the great seal to the sheriff of Yorkshire, repeating the said commission and inquisition, that he should make known to the said tenants if alive, or their heirs if dead, that they should repair and defend their tenements against the sea between now and St Martin next, and if they do not the King will take the tenements into his hand and do as he will for the salvation of the town. And that the sheriff should return the writ in Chancery on the octave of St Martin and make known to the tenants that if they do not defend their tenements in the meantime, they shall have a day in Chancery to explain why their tenements should not be taken into the King's hand and delivered to others for defence against the sea and the salvation of the town.
- Places mentioned
- Scarborough, [North Riding of Yorkshire]
- York
- Yorkshire.
- People mentioned
- Robert de Scardeburgh (Scarborough), justice
- Alexander de Bergh, justice
- John de Shirbourn (Sherburn), justice
- sheriff of Yorkshire.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated on the guard to c. 1335, with reference to CPR 1330-4, p. 207, a 1331 oyer and terminer touching the accounts of the collectors of quayage at Scarborough.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a related petition from the same petitioners see SC 8/263/13142
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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)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls Edw III, vol. II, 1330-1334, (Public Record Office, 1894), p.207 (oyer and terminer touching the accounts of the collectors of quayage at Scarborough)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517093/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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