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? No Petitioner named [This document is damaged and incomplete.]Letter from the Earl...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/191/9512
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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named [This document is damaged and incomplete.]Letter from the Earl... dating from [1383] 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 8/191/9512
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1383]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- ? No Petitioner named
- Nature of request
- [This document is damaged and incomplete.]Letter from the Earl of Douglas and of Mar to the King of England, complaining about the lack of an English warden of the East March to do justice on those who have acted against the truce, after the discharge of the Earl of Northumberland at the feast of the Assumption last, and before Lord Neville took up the post two days before the following Easter: so that no justice can be done on malefactors during that period. He asks the King to send his letters patent to Lord Neville and the Earl of Northumberland, or to one of them, to be at Lyliat Cross on 29 June next to do justice on these people, so that the lords who will be present at the great day shortly afterwards will not have to concern themselves with it; and to write back let him know his will on this matter.
- Nature of endorsement
- [On face] The King wills that the commission . . . to make redress . . . warden according to the purport of this . . ..[On dorse] To the most excellent and most puissant prince, the King of England.
- Places mentioned
- The East [Scottish] March
- Peebles, [Peeblesshire, Scotland]
- Berwick-upon-Tweed, [Northumberland]
- Lyliat Cross [unidentified].
- People mentioned
- [James Douglas], Earl of Douglas and Mar
- [Richard II], King of England
- [Robert II], King of Scotland
- [] Clyfforde (Clifford)
- [John de Neville], Lord Neville
- [Henry de Percy], Earl of Northumberland.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Letter dated 30 May, and datable to 1383 by Rot. Scot., vol. II, p.53, letters dated 20 June 1383 to Neville and Northumberland, ordering them to appear at Lyliat Cross on 30 June. Bain, 'Calendar of Documents relating to Scotland', vol.IV, p.xx suggests that Lyliat Cross, a traditional Marcher meeting place, may be Lilliardsedge between Melrose and Jedburgh, the setting for the Battle of Ancrum Moor in 1545.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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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 Scotiae, vol. II, Ed. D. Macpherson, (Eyre & Strahan, 1819), p.53 (resultant order to Neville and Northumberland to appear at on 30 June next)
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