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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Arnold (Arnaut) de Scot. de Scot Arnold (Arnaut) King and council. Arnold de Scot...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/288/14361B
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This record is about the Arnold (Arnaut) de Scot. de Scot Arnold (Arnaut) King and council. Arnold de Scot... dating from [1327-1330] 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 8/288/14361B
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1327-1330]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Arnold (Arnaut) de Scot.
- Name(s)
- de Scot, Arnold (Arnaut)
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Nature of request
- Arnold de Scot states that he served the king's father with fifteen companions from Gascony in his last war in Scotland, where he was at Melrose Abbey and lost four companions there at Blackamore, and he was wounded and captured there, and afterwards ransomed, and that he then served the king in the late war in Gascony, in the company of Matthew de Lucbon, as the Earl of Kent, Oliver de Igham and Adam de Lymbergh know well. He requests the sergeanty of Bayonne in recognition of this service, and asks the king to send his writs on this to the mayor and good people of the town.
- Nature of endorsement
- The king does not wish to increase the number of sergeants until he is apprised of the state of the Duchy.
- Places mentioned
- Scotland
- Gascony, [France]
- Melrose Abbey, [Roxburghshire, Scotland]
- Blakhammor (Blackamore), [North Riding of Yorkshire]
- Bayonne, [Gascony, France]
- Duchy [of Aquitaine (Guyenne), France].
- People mentioned
- [Edward II], King of England
- Matthew (Matheu) de Lucbon (Luchon)
- [Edmund of Woodstock], Earl of Kent
- Oliver de Igham (Ingham)
- Adam de Lymbergh.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- This petition must be from the reign of Edward III, as it mentions the petitioner's service in Scotland in the reign of the King's father, at the time of the Melrose Abbey affair (1316), and as it names Edmund, Earl of Kent as a witness to his service in Gascony, it must be from before his execution in March 1330. Bain, vol. III, no.1015 dates the petition to 1330.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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A near-duplicate petition with the same endorsement, is SC 8/282/14055
A near-duplicate petition, differently endorsed, is SC 8/288/14361A
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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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- Calendar of Documents Relating to Scotland, vol. III, 1307-1357, Ed. J. Bain, (Her Majesty's General Register House, 1888), no.1015 (calendar of duplicate petition)
- Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.441 (no.46) (full edition of later copy of duplicate petition)
- 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), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rotuli Parliamentorum I, pp.431-47, no.46 (summary of references)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9735522/
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