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Six Halyburton brothers of Scotland King The petitioners request that the king will...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/50/2488

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Reference
SC 8/50/2488
Date
[1305]
Description
Petitioners
Six Halyburton brothers of Scotland
Addressees
King
Nature of request
The petitioners request that the king will have regard for their estate and that they will serve him at his will since they were granted £20 of land each for their sustenance, from which they have been ousted and have nothing but their service because of the Scottish war.
Nature of endorsement
Let them do some good service to the lord king for which the lord king ought to do something for them and the lord king will reward their service and thereupon the lord king has enjoined his lieutenant in Scotland and the chamberlain of the same that they see what provision can be made for them and they are to inform the lord king accordingly.
Places mentioned
Halyburton, [Berwickshire, Scotland]
People mentioned
John de Balliol
Note
The petition dates to one of the 1305 parliaments, though being one of those membranes published by Maitland.
Related material

For a Latin summary of petition on this unpublished membrane of the 1305 parliaments see SC 9/12

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 4245
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Documents Relating to Scotland, vol. II, 1272-1307, Ed. J. Bain, (Her Majesty's General Register House, 1884), no.1778 (full translation of petition) & no.1782 (letter from the King to Aymer de Valence, including a command to thank the brothers for their recent service)
  • 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. 446 (full edition and translation)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062702/

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