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Abbot and convent of Coupar Angus. King and council. The abbot and convent of Coupar...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/10/458

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Reference
SC 8/10/458
Date
[1305]
Description
Petitioners
Abbot and convent of Coupar Angus.
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
The abbot and convent of Coupar Angus request that the king have consideration of the great losses and damages they have suffered through the burning of their granges, and other destructions of their goods and chattels, after they came into the king's peace - as those of the king's council who are present can attest - and that he give them some compensation for this, as he promised.
Nature of endorsement
Coram rege.There is to be an inquiry before the king's Lieutenant into these burnings, when and by whom they were carried out, and they are to inform the king.
Places mentioned
Cupre (Coupar Angus), [Angus, Scotland]
Scotland.
Note
Dated with reference to PROME and Memoranda de Parliamento.
Related material

For transcript, see p.55 of PRO 31/7/93

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 1649
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Memoranda de Parliamento, or Records of the Parliament holden at Westminster, 25 Edw I, Ed. F.W. Maitland, (Rolls Series, vol. XCVIII, 1893), pp.203-204, no.355 (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.472a, no.67 (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. 373 (full edition and translation)
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