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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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William de Weston. de Weston William King. Flanders Scotland Berwick, [Northumberland]...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/319/E378
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This record is about the William de Weston. de Weston William King. Flanders Scotland Berwick, [Northumberland]... dating from [c. 1318] 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 8/319/E378
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Date (When the record was created)
- [c. 1318]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- William de Weston.
- Name(s)
- de Weston, William
- Addressees
- King.
- Places mentioned
- Flanders
- Scotland
- Berwick, [Northumberland]
- Newcastle upon Tyne, [Northumberland]
- Holderness, [East Riding of Yorkshire].
- Nature of request
- [Petition in four parts:] 1) Weston requests that the treasurer be commanded to make payment to acquit his horses and armour against his expenses since coming from the castle of Berwick as he has served the king in Flanders, in all his Scottish wars and now in Berwick Castle and has pledged his armour and horses at Newcastle for £10, being the cost of his horses since the beginning of the siege of the castle. 2) Weston requests that the treasurer is ordered to make an assignment in a certain manner so that he is able to be paid for the debt owed to him for his wages and those of his companions and for the loss of his horses since he has nothing to sustain him and his companions without the king's aid, he having lost his Scottish lands and all his movables, and he requests this so that he can continue to serve the king. 3) He requests maintenance for him and his companions to continue to serve him, and ordain how and where they should stay. 4) He requests the grant of an office where he can continue to serve him honourably, such as the bailiwick of Holderness..
- Nature of endorsement
- Coram rege et consilio.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to c. 1318 as it is clearly in the aftermath of the fall of Berwick, Weston presumably looking for new office after the fall of Berwick Castle. It is possible that this petition is part of the group of petitions that formed an original file at the end of file 318 and in this file dating to 1318-1319.
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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 Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. II, 1330-1333, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.198 (order to the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer to pay the petitioner)
- Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), pp.63-5 (no.33) (full edition of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9529430/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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