Abbot of Melrose; Abbot of Coupar Angus. King and council. Abbot of Melrose; Abbot...

Petitioners

Abbot of Melrose; Abbot of Coupar Angus.

Addressees

King and council.

Occupation

Abbot of Melrose; Abbot of Coupar Angus

Nature of request

The abbots of Melrose and Coupar Angus state that they have come to London at the king's command, at great trouble and at their own expense, and that the clergy were taxed for the expenses of the two bishops and two abbots, as envoys, but they have received nothing of this money. They request that the king order the Chamberlain of Scotland to receive the account of the collectors of the tax, and that they be paid their reasonable expenses.

Nature of endorsement

They are to have a writ to the Chamberlain that, when he has audited the account of the collectors, he is to let them have a reasonable allowance, according to the share due to them.

Places mentioned

Meuros (Melrose), [Roxburghshire, Scotland]

Cupre (Coupar Angus), [Angus, Scotland]

Scotland.

For transcript, see p.96 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.216-217, no.380 (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.68 (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. 407 (full edition and translation)