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David de Bettoyn (Betoigne). de Bettoyn (Betoigne) David. King and council. Scotland....

Catalogue reference: SC 8/5/237

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Reference
SC 8/5/237
Date
[1321-1322]
Description
Petitioners
David de Bettoyn (Betoigne).
Name(s)
de Bettoyn (Betoigne), David
.
Addressees
King and council.
Places mentioned
Scotland
.
Nature of request
Bettoyn requests that the king order the chancellor to grant him a writ of liberate to the treasurer for payment of his fee, which is in arrears, granted to him by the king's letters patent for the lands which he has lost in Scotland, so that he will then be equipped to serve the king in the Scottish wars.
Nature of endorsement
He is to show his letters in Chancery, and to have a writ there as is appropriate.
Note
One of a collection of petitions published on pages 387ff of Rot. Parl., vol I., which all seem to date from around 1322. This dating is confirmed by PROME, Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rotuli Parliamentorum I, pp. 387-415, which dates these petitions to 15 or 16 Edward II (1321-1323).
Related material

For a related petition from the same petitioner see SC 8/319/E369

For a petition making reference to the petitioner, see SC 8/337/15906

For another petition by the same petitioner, see SC 8/327/E849

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 518
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.397b-398a, no.60 (full edition of original petition)
  • 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), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rot. Parl., vol., I, pp. 387-415, no. 60 (summary of references)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060357/

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