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Hugh Ridell (Riddel), son and heir of Geoffrey Riddel. Ridell (Riddel) Hugh King...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/13/645

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Reference
SC 8/13/645
Date
[1348]
Description
Petitioners
Hugh Ridell (Riddel), son and heir of Geoffrey Riddel.
Name(s)
Ridell (Riddel), Hugh
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Ridell shows that his father held the manor of Cranstoun in chief of the king by the service of finding an armed man to serve with him in the Scottish war. The king was seised of this service by his father until he was driven out by the Scots for his allegiance to the king. After the death of his father Ridell has made the service for the manor to the king at his own cost without having the profit of the manor so that he requests that he may be able to have, hold and enjoy the manor as his inheritance as his ancestors held it.
Nature of endorsement
He should come before the council and explain the matter contained in the petition.
Places mentioned
[Scotland]
Cranstoun Riddel, [Midlothian, Scotland].
People mentioned
Geoffrey Ridell (Riddel), father of the petitioner.
Note
This is dated to 1348 by the details given in Rot. Parl., vol II, p.175; see also PROME, parliament of January-February 1348, appendix, no. 67. There is a note on the guard that Bain dates this to 1335, but 1348 makes far greater sense, for the petitioner is asking for the return of a manor in the heart of Scotland, which under normal circumstances the English king could not hope to grant, however much he might have wished to be able to do. In 1348, circumstances were different. Following the Scottish defeat at Neville's Cross late in 1346, David II had been captured and was in English hands. It seems very likely that Riddel hoped to profit from this to lever him back into his Scottish manor, which had been in his family's hands sufficiently long enough to bear the family name.
Related material

For a petition by the petitioner's grandfather, see SC 8/138/6852

For a petition by the petitioner's father, see SC 8/334/E1127

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 6909
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Documents Relating to Scotland, vol. III, 1307-1357, Ed. J. Bain, (Her Majesty's General Register House, 1888), p.217 (no.1190) (calendar of duplicate petition)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.190b-191a (no.65) (full edition of a later copy 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), parliament of January-February 1348, appendix, no. 67 (summary of petition)
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