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Petitioners

Gilbert de Lasceles (Lascelles).

Name(s)

de Lasceles (Lascelles), Gilbert

Addressees

King's council

Nature of request

Gilbert de Lasceles states that his elder brother, Ralph, is an idiot and cannot manage his lands in Scotland, as his lord the earl of Buchan and the other good people of Scotland present here know; he requests custody of his brother's body and lands, if the law of Scotland permits it.

Nature of endorsement

Before the council because the custom of Scotland is not known here.The Keeper and Chamberlain of Scotland are to be ordered to inquire into the law and customs of Scotland in this case and to inform the king.

Places mentioned

Scotland

People mentioned

Ralph de Lasceles (Lascelles), brother of petitioner

[John Comyn], Earl of Buchan

For a related petition from earl of Buchan, claiming his rights to custody as chief lord, see SC 8/10/456

For an earlier related petition from William le Vavasour see no. 126 in C 47/22/9

• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. IV, 1301-1307, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.320 (re-grant (prior to petition) of custody of Ralph de Lasceles to William le Vavasour)
• Memoranda de Parliamento, or Records of the Parliament holden at Westminster, 25 Edw I, Ed. F.W. Maitland, (Rolls Series, vol. XCVIII, 1893), p.225, no. 390 (edition of Latin enrolment of petition on parliament roll)
• 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. 419 (full edition and translation)