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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Robert de Blakeburn (Blackburn). de Blakeburn (Blackburn) Robert King and council....
Catalogue reference: SC 8/319/E383
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This record is about the Robert de Blakeburn (Blackburn). de Blakeburn (Blackburn) Robert King and council.... dating from [c. 1318] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/319/E383
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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
- Robert de Blakeburn (Blackburn).
- Name(s)
- de Blakeburn (Blackburn), Robert
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Blakeburn request that honourable sustenance be ordained for him until he is able to recover his lands. He has served the king and his father for 22 years and more and was in Horsley's company in the castle of Berwick until its loss and was taken prisoner and wounded near to death, he lost his brother at the battle of Bannockburn and has lost the issues of his lands in the Scottish Marches in these last ten years, and also of a fishery in the Tweed.
- Nature of endorsement
- Coram rege.
- Places mentioned
- Berwick-upon-Tweed, [Northumberland]
- Scotland
- Stirling (Bannockburn), [Stirlingshire, Scotland]
- Scottish Marches.
- People mentioned
- Roger de Horsle (Horsley).
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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 loss of Berwick to the Scots.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For a petition by the wife of the probable brother of the petitioner killed at Bannockburn, see SC 8/34/1677
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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 Documents Relating to Scotland, vol. III, 1307-1357, Ed. J. Bain, (Her Majesty's General Register House, 1888), no.624 (calendar with an error reading 10 friends instead of 10 years)
- Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), pp.66-7 (no.35) (full edition of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9529435/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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