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Dougal Mcdowyl (MacDowell). Mcdowyl (MacDowell) Dougal King and council. Dougal Mcdowyl...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/86/4277

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This record is about the Dougal Mcdowyl (MacDowell). Mcdowyl (MacDowell) Dougal King and council. Dougal Mcdowyl... dating from [? 1320] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/86/4277
Date
[? 1320]
Description
Petitioners
Dougal Mcdowyl (MacDowell).
Name(s)
Mcdowyl (MacDowell), Dougal
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Dougal Mcdowyl asks that, as his brother and his son were killed in the king's service in Scotland, his brother's son, who has been wrongly imprisoned at Tickhill for four years, might be released.
Nature of endorsement
Coram rege.The king is not otherwise advised than before.
Places mentioned
Scotland
Tickhill, [West Riding of Yorkshire].
People mentioned
[Adam de] Lymbergh.
Related material

For another petition by the same petitioner, see SC 8/319/E385

For transcript, see pp.41-42 of PRO 31/7/92

For a petition by the petitioner's son or nephew, see SC 8/63/3129

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 5821
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Documents Relating to Scotland, vol. III, 1307-1357, Ed. J. Bain, (Her Majesty's General Register House, 1888), no.1470 (calendar of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9148819/

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