Geoffrey de Aumpilford (Ampleforth). de Aumpilford (Ampleforth) Geoffrey King. Geoffrey...

Petitioners

Geoffrey de Aumpilford (Ampleforth).

Name(s)

de Aumpilford (Ampleforth), Geoffrey

Addressees

King.

Nature of request

Geoffrey de Aumpilford states that he served the king throughout his war in Scotland, and was maimed in his right eye in the castle of Tarres in the company of Walter de Boroudone, and at the beginning of the war lost everything he had in the castle of Banff, where he was constable in the company of John de Pothowe. He requests a bailiwick, or constableship, or forestership, in England or Scotland, where he can serve for his living.

Nature of endorsement

The King's Lieutenant in Scotland is to be ordered to provide him with a suitable office for a maimed man for term of his life.

Places mentioned

Tarres [unidentified], [Scotland]

Banff, [Banffshire, Scotland]

Scotland.

People mentioned

Walter de Boroudone (Burradon)

John de Pothowe (Potto).

For transcript, see p.16 of PRO 31/7/93

For a Latin summary of petition on a membrane not edited by Maitland see m 13 of SC 9/12

• Memoranda de Parliamento, or Records of the Parliament holden at Westminster, 25 Edw I, Ed. F.W. Maitland, (Rolls Series, vol. XCVIII, 1893), pp. 201-202, no. 349 (Latin summary of earlier related petition by same petitioner)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.469b, no.51 (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. 438 (full edition and translation)