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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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John de Swineburn (Swinburn). de Swineburn (Swinburn) John King. Swineburn requests...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/279/13920
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/279/13920
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1307]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- John de Swineburn (Swinburn).
- Name(s)
- de Swineburn (Swinburn), John
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- Swineburn requests remedy because by his charter Alexander late king of Scotland granted him 10 marks yearly for life from the farms of Tynedale and estovers in all Alexander's woods in Wark in Tynedale for Swineburn's manor of Haughton, of which rent and estovers he was seised throughout the reigns of Alexander and John and when the manor of Wark was in the King's hand by John's forfeiture until the same manor came into the hand of Anthony, bishop of Durham, who ousted the petitioner from the estovers and rent and has withheld them from him for ten years.
- Nature of endorsement
- Hartlepool and Barton should be assigned to enquire into the petitioner's seisin and, having examined the charters and muniments for the said rent and estovers, and whether he made any remission to any of the kings of Scotland, and if he was seised at the time the king had custody of the land of Scotland, they are to return the inquisition into Chancery.
- Places mentioned
- Scotland
- Tynedale, [Northumberland]
- Wark in Tynedale, [Northumberland]
- Haughton, [Northumberland]
- Durham, [County Durham].
- People mentioned
- Alexander [III], King of Scotland
- John [de Balliol], King of Scotland
- Anthony [Bek], Bishop of Durham
- Geoffrey de Hertepol (Hartlepool)
- Robert de Barton.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- This petition must date to 1307 since it is included on the Vetus Codex (PROME, Vetus Codex 1307, appendix, no.33).
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Royal letters 3717.
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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.59-60 (no.45) (full edition and summary)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.194a (Latin summary of petition on Parliament Roll)
- 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), Vetus Codex 1307, appendix, no.33 (full edition and translation)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517868/
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