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Hugh de Rydale (Riddell). de Rydale (Riddell) Hugh King and council Rydale requests...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/326/E739

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This record is about the Hugh de Rydale (Riddell). de Rydale (Riddell) Hugh King and council Rydale requests... dating from [c. 1305] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/326/E739
Date
[c. 1305]
Description
Petitioners
Hugh de Rydale (Riddell).
Name(s)
de Rydale (Riddell), Hugh
Addressees
King and council
Nature of request
Rydale requests that he be rewarded for his service in all the wars of the king to maintain his honour, and he requests allowance for two horses that he lost in Galloway and at Falkirk, and account for his wages which are in arrears since the time of Ralph le Cofferer and his bill is detained in the Wardrobe.
Nature of endorsement
He should go to the Wardrobe and account there of his wages and losses of his horses, and he should have a bill and have satisfaction.
Places mentioned
Scotland
Galloway, [Scotland]
Veire Chapele (Falkirk), (Stirlingshire, Scotland).
People mentioned
Ralf le Coffrer (Cofferer).
Note
The petition is dated to c. 1305 on the basis of a related petition calendared in Bain that is of this date (Bain, vol. IV, no. 1818). The guard note also suggests a date of 1302, but on what basis is unclear.
Related material

For another petition by the same petitioner, see SC 8/138/6852

For a petition by the petitioner's son, see SC 8/334/E1127

For a petition by the petitioner's grandson, see SC 8/13/645

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Documents Relating to Scotland, vol. IV, 1357-1509, Ed. J. Bain, (Her Majesty's General Register House, 1888), no.1818 (calendar of another petition by the same petitioner on similar matters)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9682734/

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