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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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? No Petitioner named [This document is partially illegible.]Letter to Alexander...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/195/9734
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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named [This document is partially illegible.]Letter to Alexander... dating from 1264 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 8/195/9734
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1264
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- ? No Petitioner named
- Nature of request
- [This document is partially illegible.]Letter to Alexander III from the community of Aberdeen: To the most serene prince . . . King of Scots . . . subjects, community of Aberdeen . . . reverence. Most excellent . . . letters we inform [you] that we understand that . . . detriment [of the] burgh/burgesses . . . that you wish to grant to the Earl of Mar . . . Kildrummy . . . we believe that to be to your advantage and to the benefit . . . Aberdeen, because the Earl . . . promised, that he wishes the said place by our burgesses . . . of Mar that everything which they have for sale, to be brought to the said [place] of Kildrummy, and what they cannot sell there, at Aberdeen . . . to be sold . . . of yours will pass through, those things which they were accustomed to sell elsewhere, where your advantage not . . . as it seems to us, you could grant the said community a burgh there without prejudice . . . however your right and honour, and saving to us and our successors our liberties . . . granted . . . and to our predecessors. May your Lordship and Excellence flourish long in the Lord. In testimony of these things we have had our common seal put to the present letters. Given at Aberdeen, on the eve of St Martin, in the year of the Lord 1264.
- Nature of endorsement
- [None]
- Places mentioned
- Aberdeen, [Aberdeenshire, Scotland]
- Kindrum (Kildrummy), [Aberdeenshire, Scotland].
- People mentioned
- [Alexander III], King of Scotland
- community of Aberdeen
- [William], Earl of Mar.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Letter dated to the eve of St Martin (11 November) 1264.
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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)
- Latin
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9295621/
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SC 8
Special Collections: Ancient Petitions
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