Abbot and convent of Melrose. King and council. The abbot and convent of Melrose...

Petitioners

Abbot and convent of Melrose.

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

The abbot and convent of Melrose make two requests:1) They request confirmation of their charters.2) They request that he take pity on the burning of their houses, the losses and the damages that they have suffered within his peace and under his protection, and that he might grant them wood in his Forest of Selkirk to re-build, as he promised.

Nature of endorsement

Coram rege.With regard to the confirmation, they are to go to Roger le Brabanzon and his colleagues, and show their charters there.With regard to the protection, the king has taken all religious into his protection.With regard to the third, they are to have wood to the sum of 40 oaks.

Places mentioned

Meuros (Melrose), [Roxburghshire, Scotland]

Selkirk forest, [Selkirkshire, Scotland]

Scotland.

People mentioned

Roger le Brabanzon (Brabazon).

For another contemporary petition by the same petitioners, see SC 8/10/462

For transcript, see p.94 of PRO 31/7/93

• Memoranda de Parliamento, or Records of the Parliament holden at Westminster, 25 Edw I, Ed. F.W. Maitland, (Rolls Series, vol. XCVIII, 1893), pp.185-6, no. 303 (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.472b, no.72 (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, nos 317-319 (full edition and translation)