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Alexander, the queen's chandler. Alexander King. the queen's chandler Alexander,...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/9/439

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Reference
SC 8/9/439
Date
[1305]
Description
Petitioners
Alexander, the queen's chandler.
Name(s)
Alexander
Addressees
King.
Occupation
the queen's chandler
Nature of request
Alexander, the queen's chandler, states that although the king had given him the lands of John le Rous of Macfothel, he has now given and granted them to William de Gourleye, because he falsely claimed to have killed John le Rous - who in fact died a year before the king last came to Scotland. Alexander requests that the truth be enquired into, and a remedy provided for him.
Nature of endorsement
The Keeper and Chamberlain of Scotland are to be ordered that, when they have called the parties before them and heard their arguments, they are to inquire into the truth and inform the king.
Places mentioned
Macfothel [unidentified], [Scotland]
Scotland.
People mentioned
[Margaret of France], queen of England
John le Rous of Macfothel
William de Gourleye.
Note
Dated with reference to PROME and Memoranda de Parliamento.
Related material

For transcript, see p.10 of PRO 31/7/93

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 198
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Memoranda de Parliamento, or Records of the Parliament holden at Westminster, 25 Edw I, Ed. F.W. Maitland, (Rolls Series, vol. XCVIII, 1893), p.217, no.381 (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), pp.468b-469a, no.47 (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. 408 (full edition and translation)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060565/

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