Abbot and convent of Melrose. King. The abbot and convent of Melrose make two requests:1)...

Petitioners

Abbot and convent of Melrose.

Addressees

King.

Nature of request

The abbot and convent of Melrose make two requests:1) They state that Hugh of Cressingham, then treasurer of Scotland, bought 55 sacks of wool from them and paid them, on behalf of the king, to merchants of the society of the Frescobaldi, and that they have a letter of obligation for this wool. They ask the king for his grace, and to declare his will on this.2) They state that when Osbert de Spaldington was sheriff of Berwickshire, a proclamation was made that wools and hides were to be taken, throughout the country, to the nearest port, so they had 14 sacks of wool and a last of hides taken to Berwick, which Osbert took for the king's use. They request the king's grace on this.

Nature of endorsement

To these petitions and to all other similar petitions, this answer is given: that they are to have a writ to the Chamberlain of Scotland, that he is to account with all these creditors both for wools and for hides and other things taken for the king's use in the time of Hugh de Cressingham and Osbert de Spaldington, and when he has accounted with them, he is to inform the king of the aforesaid debts at the next parliament.

Places mentioned

Meuros (Melrose), [Roxburghshire, Scotland]

Berwick upon Tweed, [Northumberland]

Scotland.

People mentioned

Hugh de Cressingham, formerly Treasurer of Scotland

the society of the Frescbaund (Frescobaldi)

Osbert de Spaldington, formerly Sheriff of Berwickshire.

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

For transcript, see p.95 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.184-5, no.302 (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, nos.73 and 74 (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 315-316 (edition)