Document 2/302/2 (CDS, ii, no. 1123)
- Description
- The abbot and convent of Our Lady of Sweetheart in Galloway of the Order of ‘Misteus’ pray the king 1) to confirm the lands held by charter of their founder and others, and grant warren; 2) protection for their lands and men, and relief from seignurages and talliages imposed contrary to their franchise and founder’s charter; 3) restoration of 8 ½ sacks of good wool taken for the king by Sir Harsculf de Cleseby out of a grange at Holm Cultram where they had placed it for safety from the Scots in the 25th year; 4) to remember their destruction and burnings in the war, which they place at £5,000 a more, in his grace. [Endorsed: 1) Sir Roger Brabazon and another, with the escheator and chamberlain of Scotland, to examine their charters and certify the king; 2) the king takes all religious under his protection; 3) the king will ordain as to the wool as with others; 4) the king will do amends as to others; He grants them warren] There is a like petition from the Abbey of Our Lady of Dundrennan of the same Order, in similar terms. Their damages are estimated at £8,000 and more. The king gives similar responses.
- Firm date
- undated
- Probable date
- 1299?
- Source for Data Entry
- CDS, ii, no. 1123
- Trad. ID
- CDS, ii, no. 1123
- Calendar number
- 2/302/2
- Charter type
- Petition
- Language
- Entered from an English summary