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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Thomas de Meldrum, son and heir of William de Meldrum. de Meldrum Thomas King. Thomas,...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/126/6286
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This record is about the Thomas de Meldrum, son and heir of William de Meldrum. de Meldrum Thomas King. Thomas,... dating from [1305] 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 8/126/6286
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1305]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Thomas de Meldrum, son and heir of William de Meldrum.
- Name(s)
- de Meldrum, Thomas
- Addressees
- King.
- Nature of request
- Thomas, son and heir of William de Meldrum, who is under age, requests that the King order the sheriff of Aberdeen to ensure that he has reasonable maintenance. The king granted wardship of his father's lands to Thomas de Chacombe, and Chacombe has since sold the wardship to Robert de Keith.
- Nature of endorsement
- [on face] Petition of Scotland.[on dorse] He is to have a writ to the lieutenant in Scotland that he call the parties before him and allow the heir reasonable maintenance, according to the custom of those parts.
- Places mentioned
- Aberdeen, [Aberdeenshire, Scotland].
- People mentioned
- William de Meldrum, father of the petitioner
- Thomas de Chacombe
- Robert de Keith
- sheriff of Aberdeen.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Dated in PROME and Memoranda de Parliamento to 1305.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For transcript, see p.92 of PRO 31/7/93
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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 5711
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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)
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- Memoranda de Parliamento, or Records of the Parliament holden at Westminster, 25 Edw I, Ed. F.W. Maitland, (Rolls Series, vol. XCVIII, 1893), p.232 (no.404) (full edition of petition)
- The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), roll 12, appendix, no. 435 (full edition and translation)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9208461/
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Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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