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John de Siggeston. de Siggeston John King and Council. Siggeston requests that fees...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/310/15467

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Reference
SC 8/310/15467
Date
[1327]
Description
Petitioners
John de Siggeston.
Name(s)
de Siggeston, John
Addressees
King and Council.
Nature of request
Siggeston requests that fees and wages outstanding from his time in the king's service in the marches of Scotland, as appear by wardrobe bills in his possession, be allowed against his debts at the Exchequer.
Nature of endorsement
Let him show his bills in chancery and the treasurer and barons will be ordered to make allowance accordingly.
Places mentioned
Scotland
March of Scotland.
Note
Securely dated by the inclusion of a transcription of the petition on the parliament roll for 1327 (Rot. Parl. Hac. Ined., pp.149-50). The resultant order to the Exchequer was issued on 8 June 1327.
Related material

For another petition by the same petitioner on the same matter see SC 8/73/3647

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. I, 1327-1330, (Public Record Office, 1896), p.135 (resultant order to the treasuere and barons to make these allowances)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum Anglie Hactenus Inediti, Ed. H.G. Richardson and G.O. Sayles, (Camden Society, 3rd Series, vol. LI, 1935), pp.149-50 (full edition of petition)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.432 (summary of petition and response on parliament roll)
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