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Petitioners

John Comyn, Earl of Buchan.

Name(s)

Comyn, Earl of Buchan, John

Nature of request

John Comyn, Earl of Buchan, states that the law and custom of Scotland is that chief lords should have the custody of the lands of idiots, and that Ralph, son of Ralph de Lasceles, who holds of him by homage and fealty the land of Balmonth and other lands in Fife (which the king has given to William le Vavazour), is held to be an idiot. He requests custody of Ralph, so that he might ordain - with the closest kin of Ralph to whom his inheritance cannot descend - for Ralph's estate, according to the aforesaid usage and custom.

Nature of endorsement

Before the council, and let William le Vavazour be called there.The king's Lieutenant and Chamberlain are to be ordered to inquire into the laws and customs of Scotland in this case, and to inform the king about this.

Places mentioned

Balmonth, [Fife, Scotland]

Scotland.

People mentioned

Ralph de Lasceles (Lascelles), the son

Ralph de Lasceles (Lascelles), the father

William le Vavazour (Vavasour)

For transcript, see p.47 of PRO 31/7/93

For a related petition from the brother of Ralph de Lascelles see SC 8/10/454

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 Lascelles 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), pp.228-9, no.397 (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), p.471b, no.64 (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. 427 (full edition and translation)