John Comyn, Earl of Buchan. Comyn, Earl of Buchan John King. The earl of Buchan requests...

Petitioners

John Comyn, Earl of Buchan.

Name(s)

Comyn, Earl of Buchan, John

Addressees

King.

Nature of request

The earl of Buchan requests that the king grant him as much wood as he pleases in his forests of Buchan and Kintore to rebuild one of his manors and other lands, which were burnt down during the war; and also, as he has lost his prime deer through coming to this country to the king, that the king grant him as many hinds as he pleases, now, during fawning season, in the aforesaid forests.

Nature of endorsement

The king wishes the earl to have fifty oaks and twelve hinds.

Places mentioned

Buthyn (Buchan), [Aberdeenshire, Scotland]

Kintore [Aberdeenshire, Scotland]

Scotland.

For transcript, see p.28 of PRO 31/7/93

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

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw I, vol. V, 1302-1307, (Public Record Office, 1908), pp.296-297 (separate orders to Duncan de Ferendraght, keeper of the king's forest of Buchan and to Robert de Brus, keeper of the king's forest of Kintore, to allow the earl of Buchan six hinds and twenty-five oaks in each place)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.469b, no.52 (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. 473 (full edition and translation)