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Abbot and convent of Arbroath. King of England and Scotland and council. [This petition...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/341/16092

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SC 8/341/16092
Date
[1297]
Description
Petitioners
Abbot and convent of Arbroath.
Addressees
King of England and Scotland and council.
Nature of request
[This petition is badly damaged, especially towards the bottom] The Abbot and convent of Arbroath make at least five petitions:1) They state that Alexander, late King of Scots, gave and granted a certain sum to their house in perpetual alms, in honour of St Thomas [of Canterbury], to provide lights before [the altar of] St Thomas and to feed thirteen poor men every Tuesday, and they have been seised of this for forty years and more, throughout the reigns of Alexander, and of John Balliol, but that the sheriffs of Forfarshire and Fife are now withholding it from them. They request grace and a remedy.2) They state that they have taken from the Bishop of St Andrews . . . for 20 years in this form, that if they could have . . . without destruction . . .3) They state that they had common pasture in a wood . . . with which the aforesaid Walter enfeoffed them by his charter . . . paying annually to him . . . was between King John Balliol . . . in his hand in prejudice . . .4) Furthermore . . . had a tenant Adam . . . 15 s. annually . . . King Alexander . . . that rent . . . grace . . .5) [Illegible: others may be missing.
Nature of endorsement
[On face, to first] They are to have a writ . . .[Others illegible][None on dorse]
Places mentioned
Arbroath, [Angus, Scotland]
Forfarshire (Angus), [Scotland]
Fife, [Scotland].
People mentioned
Alexander [III], King of Scotland
John de Bayel (Balliol), King of Scotland
Bishop of St Andrews
Walter . . .
Adam . . ..
Note
Rot. Scot., vol. I p.39 is dated 6 March 25 Edward I (1297), and is clearly in response to the first petition here.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Rotuli Scotiae, vol. I, Ed. D. Macpherson, (Eyre & Strahan, 1814), p.39 (instructions to pay the alms, if it is found that it is as the petitioners say)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9736573/

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