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Gilbert de la Hay Hay Gilbert King and council. Scotland Gilbert de la Hay requests...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/51/2522

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Reference
SC 8/51/2522
Date
[1305]
Description
Petitioners
Gilbert de la Hay
Name(s)
Hay, Gilbert
Addressees
King and council.
Places mentioned
Scotland
Nature of request
Gilbert de la Hay requests the king's grace for his relief for his lands in Scotland, which have been ruined by the war, as if he has to pay the assessments for his lands, for those which his mother holds in dower and for those of his free tenants, from which he receives nothing, he will have to sell, as he also owes £400 for his father's debts. He also mentions that his ancestors were always allowed not to pay relief by the kings of Scotland.
Nature of endorsement
Coram rege.The king has remitted £100 of his relief to Gilbert de la Hay; and he is to pay the remainder in instalments, that is, 20 marks annually, if he behaves well according to the king's will.
Note
PROME. Roll 12, introduction, following Richardson and Sayles, The English Parliament in the Middle Ages, XIX, 149-150, assigns membrane 11 of the Exchequer parliament roll SC 9/12, on which a Latin summary of this petition can be found, to the autumn parliament of 1305.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 4252
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Memoranda de Parliamento, or Records of the Parliament holden at Westminster, 25 Edw I, Ed. F.W. Maitland, (Rolls Series, vol. XCVIII, 1893), pp.202-203, no. 353 (full edition of petition and of Latin summary on parliament roll)
  • 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. 371 (full edition and translation)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062737/

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