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 state that they were enfeoffed of a piece of land in Eskdale by the ancestors of Nicholas de Graham, with the confirmation of several kings of Scotland and the Roman Curia, in free and pure alms, but that Nicholas de Graham and John his son have seized the abbot and convent's people and their goods, and imprisoned the people until they did what they wanted, and have chased them off the land, so that no-one dares to live there, against the king's peace, and preventing the abbot and convent from having any profit from their land. They request a remedy from the king, and his especial protection through his ministers in Scotland, that they might maintain the right and franchises of their church as they were in the time of King Alexander and other kings of Scotland.

Nature of endorsement

To the first petition: they are to have a writ of the English Chancery to the Chancellor of Scotland, that he is to give them a remedy according to the law of those parts.

Places mentioned

Meuros (Melrose), [Roxburghshire, Scotland]

Eskdale, [Dumfriesshire, Scotland]

Scotland.

People mentioned

Nicholas de Graham

John de Graham.

For another contemporary petition by the same petitioners, see SC 8/10/457

For transcript, see p.93 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), p.213, no.373 (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.473a, no.75 (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. 396 (full edition and translation)