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John de Spauyding (Spalding), canon of Elgin. de Spauyding (Spalding) John King....

Catalogue reference: SC 8/9/442

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Reference
SC 8/9/442
Date
[1305]
Description
Petitioners
John de Spauyding (Spalding), canon of Elgin.
Name(s)
de Spauyding (Spalding), John
Addressees
King.
Occupation
canon of Elgin
Nature of request
John de Spauyding, canon of Elgin, asks the king to give him twenty oaks from his forest of Langmorn to build his church of Duffus, of which he is canon.
Nature of endorsement
The king wishes him to have them.
Places mentioned
Helgyne (Elgin), [Moray Scotland]
Forest of Laundmorgund (Longmorn), [Moray, Scotland]
Duffus, [Moray, Scotland]
Scotland.
Note
CCR 1302-1307, p.297 is dated at Westminster, October 26 1305.
Related material

For a Latin summary of petition on a membrane not edited by Maitland see SC 9/12

For transcript, see p.131 of PRO 31/7/93

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 4265
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw I, vol. V, 1302-1307, (Public Record Office, 1908), p.297 (instructions to Robert de Brus, keeper of the king's forest of Laundmorgun, to let John de Spauyding have twenty oaks)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.469a, no.50 (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. 468 (full edition and translation)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9060568/

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