John de Hastinges (Hastings). de Hastinges (Hastings) John King and council. Petition...

Petitioners

John de Hastinges (Hastings).

Name(s)

de Hastinges (Hastings), John

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

Petition in two parts, on face:]Hastinges requests that the king will take council and will do him right according to the law of the land as his is one of the heirs of King Alexander and ought to have part of the lands of which the king died seised of in Tynedale and Penrith.[On dorse:]Hastinges requests that he be released from his responsibility as pledge for a fine in 10,000 marks made by the earl of Gloucester with the king as the debt has been released.

Nature of endorsement

[On face:]The land is not in the king's hand, therefore he should do what seems to him expedient.[On dorse:]Let the rolls of Chancery be examined, and if the fine was released, the executors of the testament of the earl should be remitted.

Places mentioned

Tynedale, [Northumberland]

Penrith, [Cumberland].

People mentioned

Alexander III, King of Scots

Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford

Edmund [of Almaine, Earl of Cornwall], and brother of the king

[Henry de Lacy], Earl of Lincoln.

For another petition by the same petitioner and formerly joined with these petitions, see SC 8/321/E492

For a related copy of letters patent, see SC 8/313/E55

For another petition by the same petitioner, see SC 8/83/4110

For another petition by the same petitioner in part on the same matter, see SC 8/318/E337

• Ancient Petitions Relating to Northumberland, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CLXXI, 1961), pp.51-2 (no.39) (full edition of petition)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. IV, 1301-1307, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.101 (grant that neither the petitioner nor his heirs would incur any loss because of the bail)