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Ralph de Greystoke, Lord Greystoke. de Greystoke, Lord Greystoke Ralph [John of Gaunt],...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/85/4221

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This record is about the Ralph de Greystoke, Lord Greystoke. de Greystoke, Lord Greystoke Ralph [John of Gaunt],... dating from [1380] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/85/4221
Date
[1380]
Description
Petitioners
Ralph de Greystoke, Lord Greystoke.
Name(s)
de Greystoke, Lord Greystoke, Ralph
Addressees
[John of Gaunt], King of Castile and Leon and Duke of Lancaster.
Nature of request
Ralph, Lord Greystoke states that he was appointed to be one of the wardens of the Scottish March with Northumberland, and also warden of Roxburgh castle, but that as he was travelling to Roxburgh to take up this post, he was seized within the realm of England by the Scottish Earl of March, and put to a heavy ransom, so heavy that it will ruin him forever. He requests the Duke of Lancaster's help, that he might not be utterly destroyed by this payment.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Castile, [Spain]
Leon, [Spain]
the Scottish March
Northumberland
Roxburgh, [Roxburghshire, Scotland].
People mentioned
George Dunbar, Earl of Dunbar and Earl of March.
Note
Dated to 1380 by Northern Petitions pp.149-51 (no.115), on the grounds that John of Gaunt was the King's Lieutenant in the Marches towards Scotland at that point.
Related material

For another petition by Greystoke on the same matter, see SC 8/178/8864

For another petition from the same petitioner on this matter, see SC 8/113/5624

For a duplicate of SC 8/178/8864, see SC 8/178/8870

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 3858
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Documents Relating to Scotland, vol. IV, 1357-1509, Ed. J. Bain, (Her Majesty's General Register House, 1888), no.315 (calendar of petition)
  • Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), pp.149-51 (no.115) (full edition of petition)
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