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William Byset (Bisset). Byset (Bisset) William King and council. Byset requests that...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/37/1832

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Reference
SC 8/37/1832
Date
[1308]
Description
Petitioners
William Byset (Bisset).
Name(s)
Byset (Bisset), William
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Byset requests that he will not be the loser for his service and that the king will fulfil his father's offer of 200 marks of land which the king has adjourned to Windsor promising to do him justice on his next coming to Scotland which was in the previous August, but nothing happened. He further requests some sustenance as the Scots have occupied all his Scottish lands. He also requests a letter to the chancellor of Scotland to deliver the lands of his brother's wife that are in the keeping of John de Segrave so that she can have seisin as she is of full age.
Nature of endorsement
It is to be respited until it is found how much land will content him, and the king will have regard for his great service.Concerning the third petition he should come into Chancery and have a writ to the chancellor of Scotland that he should do full justice according to the custom of that country.
Places mentioned
Lanercost, [Cumberland]
Windsor, [Berkshire]
Scotland.
People mentioned
Aimer de Valence, then Keeper of Scotland
Bishop of Chester (Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield)
Robert de Eyncurt (Deincourt)
John de Botetourt (Buteturte)
John [Byset (Bisset)], brother of the petitioner
John de Segrave (Seagrave).
Note
The petition is dated by Bain to after July 1308. This assessment seems to be based on evidence in the petition concerning the king's coming to Scotland (Bain, vol. III, no.49, p.10).
Related material

For another petition from the same petitioner, see SC 8/90/4496

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 1274
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), 49, p.10 (full translation of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062034/

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