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Duncan Makedowell (MacDowell). Makedowell (MacDowell) Duncan King and council Makedowell...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/63/3129

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This record is about the Duncan Makedowell (MacDowell). Makedowell (MacDowell) Duncan King and council Makedowell... dating from [1328-1333] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/63/3129
Date
[1328-1333]
Description
Petitioners
Duncan Makedowell (MacDowell).
Name(s)
Makedowell (MacDowell), Duncan
Addressees
King and council
Nature of request
Makedowell requests that he may take £20 from the £80 of the fee . . . until he is provided for elsewhere as he has nothing to live on. His father lost all his lands because of his allegiance to the king's father and grandfather.1)
Nature of endorsement
Coram rege.2) Let this petition be delivered to Richard de Bury so that he can show it to the king, and he should have a day at his will.
People mentioned
Dougal Makedowell (Macdowell), father of the petitioner.
Note
The petition probably dates to c. 1328 as the petitioner's father was certainly dead by then (CCR 1327-30, pp.73, 248); the reference to Richard Bury indicates a date between 1328 and 1333, when Bury was elevated to the bishopric of Durham.
Related material

For another petition by the petitioner's father or uncle, see SC 8/86/4277

For another petition endorsed as this one is, see SC 8/45/2234

For another petition endorsed as this see SC 8/39/1941

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 5681
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9106892/

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