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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Adam de Slyngesbi (Slingsby), burgess of Berwick-upon-Tweed. de Slyngesbi (Slingsby)...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/296/14795
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This record is about the Adam de Slyngesbi (Slingsby), burgess of Berwick-upon-Tweed. de Slyngesbi (Slingsby)... dating from [c. 1334] 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 8/296/14795
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1334]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Adam de Slyngesbi (Slingsby), burgess of Berwick-upon-Tweed.
- Name(s)
- de Slyngesbi (Slingsby), Adam
- Addressees
- Chancellor.
- Nature of request
- Adam de Slyngesbi states that four years ago he took all the fisheries of the Abbot and convent of Jedburgh in the River Tweed, for a term of five years, and that they are now seized into the King's hand. He requests a remedy.
- Nature of endorsement
- They say that the aforesaid abbot and convent granted the aforesaid Adam the aforesaid fishery by their deed [shown here] in court paying 100 s. and 80 salmon as the petition claims, and that four years have elapsed of that term and that one year remains, and that Adam was in Berwick at the time of the surrender and that he did not remit etc.He is to have a writ to the Sheriff of Berwick to deliver the fishery to the aforesaid Adam, if for that reason etc., to hold until the end of the aforesaid term, so that he pays the aforesaid rent to the King during the term, saving everyone's rights.
- Places mentioned
- Berwick-upon-Tweed, [Northumberland]
- River Tweed
- Jedburgh, [Roxburghshire, Scotland].
- People mentioned
- Abbot and convent of Jedburgh.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated to c. 1334 (after the siege of Berwick of 1333) by the similarity of the content to that of SC 8/296/14791, SC 8/142/7064, SC 8/142/7073. and SC 8/142/7076. The hand, in particular, is very similar to that of SC 8/296/14791. The provisions concerning Berwick-upon-Tweed made at the beginning of March, 1334 (Rot. Scot., vol. I, pp.264-270) may also be relevant.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a similar petition about fisheries in the Tweed, see SC 8/296/14791
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517996/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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