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Community of Galloway. King and council. The community of Galloway state that they...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/10/460

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Reference
SC 8/10/460
Date
[1305]
Description
Petitioners
Community of Galloway.
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
The community of Galloway state that they are oppressed and harmed by a foreign and wrongful law, called 'Surdit de sergaunt', which has not been used since the time of King Alexander III, or for one year before his death, but which the barons and great lords of the country have now resurrected. They request peace from this law.
Nature of endorsement
Coram consilio.The king's Lieutenant and Chamberlain are to be ordered to inquire into to what advantage this is to the king, and what harm to the people; and how it can be emended, if it should be emended, to the advantage of the king and to the benefit of the people; and they are to inform the king about this.
Places mentioned
Gaway (Galloway), [Scotland]
Scotland.
Note
Memoranda de Parliamento, pp.171-2 identifies this with the petition enrolled on roll SC 9/12, from the Lent parliament of 1305. PROME, roll 12, appendix, no. 284, however, notes that the response is different, and thinks that this is a different petition on the same subject, possibly from the autumn parliament of 1305. SAS 13.5.03.
Related material

For transcript, see p.77 of PRO 31/7/93

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 3830
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.171-2, no.276 (full edition of petition and of Latin summary of this or an earlier related petition 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.71 (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. 288 (full edition and translation)
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