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Petitioners

Reginald le Chien (Cheyne).

Name(s)

Chien (Cheyne), Reginald

Addressees

King.

Nature of request

Reginald le Chien, whose lands have been burnt and destroyed three times, and who has been imprisoned three times for his loyalty to Edward I, states that Alexander III, when he knighted him, granted him from his chamber twenty pounds of annual fee, until he could be provided with land to that value. He received this fee from King Alexander throughout his lifetime, and also from Edward I when Scotland was in his keeping; and afterwards, to discharge himself of this fee, King John provided him with a land called Dr[rest of name missing in filing hole] in Moray, worth only about ten pounds annually. He has been expelled from this land by John de Weston and James de Dalileye, Edward I's clerks, and requests that he might either have it back, or be paid his fee.

Nature of endorsement

This is to be inquired into and his charter is to be examined. And he is to have a writ to the king's lieutenant in Scotland, to inquire both into the fee granted him by King Alexander, and his possession of it, and into the value of the land he requests. And the lieutenant is to inform the king at his next parliament.

Places mentioned

County of Elgin (Moray), [Scotland]

Scotland.

People mentioned

Alexander III, King of Scotland

John [Balliol], King of Scotland

John de Weston, clerk of Edward I

James de Dalileye, clerk of Edward I.

For transcript, see p.43 of PRO 31/7/93

• Memoranda de Parliamento, or Records of the Parliament holden at Westminster, 25 Edw I, Ed. F.W. Maitland, (Rolls Series, vol. XCVIII, 1893), pp.186-187, no.305 (full edition of petition and of Latin summary on parliament roll)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.468b, no.46 (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), roll 12, appendix, no. 321 (full edition and translation)