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Petitioners

Robert Wischard, Bishop of Glasgow

Name(s)

Wischard, Robert

Addressees

King

Occupation

Bishop of Glasgow

Nature of request

1) The bishop requests that the king confirm the charters and muniments of the church with which it was endowed by the king's predecessor as kings of Scotland, and command that the chaplains and clerks in the church are paid their arrears.2) He further requests the king's aid in his forest of Mauldslie and Carluke for timber so that he can make a hall and chamber for a receipt at Carstairs, and that letters be sent to the sheriff of Lanark, and another letter to his foresters of Jedburgh for timber to make a receipt at Ancrum on the March.3) He further requests that the king will warrant and vouch safe the grant made to him of the manor of Farringdon, the inheritance of John son of Bernard, and the keeping of the inheritance, and the marriage of Bernard's mother, as he vouches to warranty the rolls of the king in the time of Walter Langton, Farringdon being held now by Roger Corbet.1)

Nature of endorsement

Coram rege.2) Concerning the confirmation the king intends first to inspect the state of that land by his council in Scotland, and afterwards to have council upon the confirmation.3) Concerning the alms, the king wishes that the chamberlain do according to what was accustomed to be done in the time of King Alexander.4) He should have a writ to the king's lieutenant in Scotland that he should have timber in the forests of Selkirk and Maddesleye as much as 50 oaks.

Places mentioned

Glasgow, [Lanarkshire, Scotland]

Maddisley (Mauldslie), [Lanarkshire, Scotland]

Carlug (Carluke), [Lanarkshire, Scotland]

Casteltarres (Carstairs), [Lanarkshire, Scotland]

Gedeworth (Jedburgh), [Roxburghshire, Scotland]

Allyncrom (Ancrum), [Roxburghshire, Scotland]

Faringdon (Fairnington), [Roxburghshire, Scotland]

Selkirk forest, [Scotland]

People mentioned

John Burnard

Walter Langton, Bishop of Chester (Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield)

Roger Corbet

For a Latin summary of a similar petition with different responses on parliament roll and not edited by Maitland see m.13 in SC 9/12

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw I, vol. V, 1302-1307, (Public Record Office, 1908), p.295 (writ to give oaks in the forest of Selkirk)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.472a (no.66) (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. 442-444 (full edition and translation)