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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Dukes, earls, barons and other lords of the March of Scotland. King. [The lords appear...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/126/6259
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This record is about the Dukes, earls, barons and other lords of the March of Scotland. King. [The lords appear... dating from [1397] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/126/6259
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1397]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Dukes, earls, barons and other lords of the March of Scotland.
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- [The lords appear to be requesting that the holders of various Scottish lordships be allowed to inherit those honours despite earlier prohibitions. However, the petition is badly stained, and sections of the text, particularly the first three lines, are largely illegible.]
- Nature of endorsement
- [on face] To the Lords[on dorse] viii (8)
- Places mentioned
- March of Scotland
- Scotland
- Berwickshire, [Northumberland]
- Roxburgh, [Roxburghshire, Scotland]
- Coldingham, [Berwickshire, Scotland]
- Teviotdale, [Scotland]
- Jedburgh, [Roxburghshire, Scotland].
- People mentioned
- [Edward III], King of England
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- According to a note on the guard, this forms the eighth of a file of ten petitions presented to the 1397 Parliament, seven of which are printed in Rot. Parl. Vol. III, pp.447-8 (mis-dated there to 1399). Three of the ten (originally 7, 8 and 9), were deemed illegible by the editors of Rot. Parl. and not transcribed there, although the response to the entire file is given.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Parliamentary Petition 5532
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. III, Ric II and Hen IV, (Record Commission, 1783), pp.447-8 (edition of seven of the other petitions in this original file, and the response to all ten)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9208433/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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