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Isabel, Countess of Mar. Countess of Mar Isabel King. The countess requests that...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/60/2982
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/60/2982
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1337]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Isabel, Countess of Mar.
- Name(s)
- Countess of Mar, Isabel
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- The countess requests that the king order to his council that it be ordained for her estate and honour because she has become a liege woman and entered his homage and of their good grace that the king's commandment be accomplished and that she be acquitted of her debt and have her sustenance. She states that she requested at the last parliament at Westminster that the king will have regard for her estate and ordain for her sustenance since she is in debt because of her sustenance because she has nothing from her lands in Scotland because they are ruined by the war.1)
- Nature of endorsement
- Coram rege et magno consilio.2) It pleases the king that she have two marks a week in aid of her sustenance, and she should have letters patent, and let it be ordered to the treasurer and chamberlains to pay it to her from the Treasury at the will of the king.
- Places mentioned
- Westminster
- Escose (Scotland).
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- The petition can be dated to 1337 as the king granted the countess two marks a week on 15 March 1337 (CPR 1334-8, p.409). Bain dates this to October 1334 but on what basis it is not clear (Bain, vol. III, no.1138).
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Parliamentary Petition 5552
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
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- Calendar of Documents Relating to Scotland, vol. III, 1307-1357, Ed. J. Bain, (Her Majesty's General Register House, 1888), no.1138 (calendar of petition)
- Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. III, 1334-1338, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.409 (grant to the countess of two marks weekly)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9063203/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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