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Petitioners

Ralph de Greystoke, Baron Greystoke.

Name(s)

de Greystoke, Baron Greystoke, Ralph

Addressees

King and council in the present parliament.

Nature of request

Greystoke requests the arrest of Hilton and all his company be as Greystoke, having received a commission to guard Roxburgh Castle, was seized by the earl of the Scottish March in England and ransomed because Hilton and many men of Northumberland had seized Scottish merchants and ships, and he requests they be held until the matter of the ransom is settled.

Nature of endorsement

Let a commission be made to certain sufficient and indifferent people to enquire of the boats and the goods from them and into whose hand they have come, and to arrest all those in whose hand they are and to keep them until they have made sufficient surety to answer the king for their value. If anyone wishes to contest the enquiry they are to be released at mainprise to answer the king if it be found against them.

Places mentioned

Roxburgh, [Roxburghshire, Scotland].

People mentioned

[George Dunbar], Earl of March

William, Baron Hilton.

For transcript, see no.30 of PRO 31/7/107

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 8/85/4221

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

• Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), pp.152-3 (no.117) (full edition of petition)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), p.129b (no.12) (full edition of original petition)