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Walter de Twynham. de Twynham Walter King. Walter de Twynham asks the King to grant...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/144/7183

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Reference
SC 8/144/7183
Date
[1305]
Description
Petitioners
Walter de Twynham.
Name(s)
de Twynham, Walter
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Walter de Twynham asks the King to grant him the serjeanty of the shrievalty of Wigtown for term of life.
Nature of endorsement
Coram rege.The value of the serjeanty is to be inquired into, and if it is to the King's harm if this serjeanty is granted to him; and the King is to be informed at the next parliament. And he is to have a writ to the King's lieutenant to inquire into this.
Places mentioned
Wigtownshire, [Scotland]
Galloway, [Scotland].
Note
A Latin summary of this petition is enrolled on a roll of petitions from the autumn parliament of 1305 (PROME, roll 12, introduction).
Related material

For transcript, see p.141 of PRO 31/7/93

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Documents Relating to Scotland, vol. IV, 1357-1509, Ed. J. Bain, (Her Majesty's General Register House, 1888), no.1815 (calendar of summary of petition on parliament roll)
  • 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. 447 (full edition and translation)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9209364/

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