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Robert de Brus (Bruce), Earl of Carrick. de Brus (Bruce), Earl of Carrick Robert...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/94/4653

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Reference
SC 8/94/4653
Date
[1305]
Description
Petitioners
Robert de Brus (Bruce), Earl of Carrick.
Name(s)
de Brus (Bruce), Earl of Carrick, Robert
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Brus requests that he can hold the lands of Umfraville held in Carrick by grant of St John after he came to the king's peace at the king's will under the same conditions that St John held them, as they have again been taken into the king's hand.1)
Nature of endorsement
Coram rege.2) The king grants the earl should hold the tenement that he petitioned for, except the demesne at the will of the king.3) Scotland.
Places mentioned
Carrick, [Argyll, Scotland].
People mentioned
Ingram de Umfraville
John de Seint John (St John).
Note
The petition is dated to 1305 on the basis of the date ascribed by Bain (Bain, vol. II, no.1657).
Related material

For another part of this petition subsequently cut from this see SC 8/94/4654

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 769
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Documents Relating to Scotland, vol. II, 1272-1307, Ed. J. Bain, (Her Majesty's General Register House, 1884), no.1657 (full summary of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9149204/

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