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Crossbowmen and archers who have served the king at Kirkintilloch and in his wars...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/326/E715
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/326/E715
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1305
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Crossbowmen and archers who have served the king at Kirkintilloch and in his wars in Gascony and Scotland.
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- The crossbowmen and archers, namely forty-seven request remedy as they show that, whereas they ought to have been paid £180 and more for their wages at Kirkintilloch which are in arrears they have not received more than £48 15s. Nor are Droxford nor Bedwin willing to pay more, but keep back their bills in the wardrobe, so that they may not have recovery of any more and keep back the wages of eighteen crossbowmen who were at the siege of Stirling which amount to forty shillings and Weston detains from six crossbowmen and twenty archers for the same sixteen marks which he ought to have paid them at Berwick when they set out for Kirkintilloch and this same John detains from each of them eleven shillings from the time of Burdon; from the time of Latimer, keeper of Berwick, this same master John detains from each of these same crossbowmen nine shillings and from each archer four shillings and six pence, for which he has received their bills and still has paid them nothing. So they pray for a remedy for God.1)
- Nature of endorsement
- Before the whole council.2) They are to sue at the wardrobe to the keeper of the same and he is to satisfy them.3) Petitions of Scotland delivered into the parliament in the month of October in the thirty-third year.
- Places mentioned
- Kirkintilloch, [East Dunbartonshire, Scotland]
- Gascony, France
- Scotland
- Stirling, [Stirlingshire, Scotland]
- Berwick-upon-Tweed, [Northumberland].
- People mentioned
- John de Droxesford (Droxford)
- Walter de Bedewynd (Bedwin)
- John de Weston
- John Burdun (Burdon)
- William le Latimer, keeper of Berwick.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Memoranda de Parliamento p. 170 mentions this petition but does not print it, saying 'It may be the petition noticed by our roll, though it belongs to the autumn parliament'. PROME, roll 12, appendix, no. 284, however, seems to have no qualms about identifying this entry with this petition.However, despite the lack of qualms about the association of the Latin calendar with this petition, there must be strong reservations about this. Admittedly the Latin summary is clearly by the same petitioners as this petition, and one of the responses is the same, but the petition is clearly endorsed that it is a petition delivered into the parliament in October 33 Edw. I. and must therefore be not of the Lent parliament of 1305, but rather the autumn parliament. It is not impossible that the petitioners submitted similar petitions to successive parliaments especially if the first failed to illicit a favourable response.
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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)
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- Memoranda de Parliamento, or Records of the Parliament holden at Westminster, 25 Edw I, Ed. F.W. Maitland, (Rolls Series, vol. XCVIII, 1893), pp.169-70, no.272 (Latin 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. 284 (full edition and translation of petition)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9682710/
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