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Walter de Gosewic. de Gosewic Walter King. Gosewic requests, having regard for his...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/319/E412
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/319/E412
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1319]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Walter de Gosewic.
- Name(s)
- de Gosewic, Walter
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- Gosewic requests, having regard for his good service, that it be granted that he can live within England without impediment of his body or his goods, and that he is able to trade as otherwise he, his wife and children will perish. He lost all his goods in the betrayal of Berwick, and his wife and household were ransomed by his friends.
- Nature of endorsement
- Coram rege.Per Adam de Standon.
- Places mentioned
- Berwick-upon-Tweed, [Northumberland].
- People mentioned
- Adam de Standon.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition is dated to 1319 as a pardon was issued to the petitioner on 28 May 1319 relating to the fall of Berwick which would is very likely to be contemporary with the petition if not actually in response to it (CPR 1317-21, p.340).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For another petition on the same matter by a group of burgesses of Berwick, see SC 8/319/E393
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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 Patent Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1317-1321, (Public Record Office, 1903), p.340 (pardon of the petitioner for the king's anger for the loss of Berwick)
- Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), pp.67-8 (no.36) (full edition of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9529464/
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