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Hugh de Cressingham

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Cressingham was a son of William de Cressingham. Hugh was a clerk and one of the officers of the English exchequer, was employed in a matter arising from some wrongs done to the abbot of Ramsey in 1282; he was attached to the household of
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In 1296 Edward appointed Cressingham treasurer of the kingdom, charging him to spare no expense necessary for the complete reduction of Scotland.
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The Scots flayed him and divided his skin among themselves in moderate-sized pieces, certainly not as relics, but for hatred of him.
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of his skin William Wallace caused a broad strip to be taken from the head to the heel, to make therewith a baldrick for his sword.
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Cressingham was killed during the Battle of Stirling Bridge on 11 September 1297. According to legend, his body was
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of Doddington in the same county (Hasted); he was also rector of ‘Ruddeby’ (Rudby in Cleveland), and held
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the Scots caused him to be flayed, and in token of their hatred made thongs of his skin.
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He is known to have left a daughter Alice, who married Robert de Aspale and had issue.
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of Haverford. In 1292 the king employed him to audit the debts due to his late father,
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of Chalk, Kent, by the prior and convent of Norwich, and held the
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by the Scots as he had flayed Scottish war prisoners, and
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1297 - William Wallace & Andrew Moray defeat English
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The History and Antiquities of Suffolk: Thingoe Hundred
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English people of the Wars of Scottish Independence
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Hugh Cressingham

Arms
treasurer
English
Scotland
John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey
Battle of Stirling Bridge
Eleanor of Castile
steward
bailiffs
barony
Henry III
parsonage
rectory
prebends
flayed
William Wallace
Lanercost Chronicle
Scalacronica
Walter of Hemingburgh
Braveheart
Gerard McSorley
William Wallace
John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey
"Medieval sword believed to have been wielded by Sir William Wallace at the Battle of Stirling Bridge for sale"
"Cressingham, Hugh" 
Dictionary of National Biography
1297 - William Wallace & Andrew Moray defeat English
National Library of Scotland

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