Dear Matt ~ I suspect that the National Archives dated the letter of Sir John de Saint John as 1302 at Lochmaben, because Sir John stated in the letter that he was then ill, and because he reportedly died at Lochmaben Castle in Dumfriesshire in Scotland in 1302, as per the Annales Londonienses: Stubbs, Chronicles of the Reigns of Edward I & Edward II 1 (1882): 128 (Annales Londonienses sub A.D. 1302: “Eodem anno, die Jovis proximo ante festum Nativitatis Beatæ Mariæ [6 September], obiit dominus Johannes de Sancto Johanne apud Lohemaban in partibus Scotiæ.”). However, if the letter itself states it was written at Langham (as transcribed by Stevenson), obviously someone jumped to a false conclusion at the National Archives. In a related matter, I just checked a list of participants at the Battle of Falkirk in 1298 in Scotland as recorded in the heraldic source, The Falkirk Roll. According to Brian Timms, it is accepted that this roll was composed shortly after the battle. The roll may be found at the following weblink: www.briantimms.fr/Rolls/falkirk/falkirk.html Surprisingly, the person who is listed on the battle roll is John de Saint John, the son [i.e., the son of Sir John de Saint John, of Basing]: H 106 John de St John, the son Arms: Argent on a chief gules two mullets or a label azure The above evidence does not preclude the elder Sir John de Saint John from being in Scotland in 1298, only that he didn't fight at the Battle of Falkirk. Best always, Douglas Richardson, Salt Lake City, Utah