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Roger de Grey. de Grey Roger King and council. Roger de Grey states that when the...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/8/387

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Reference
SC 8/8/387
Date
[1325]
Description
Petitioners
Roger de Grey.
Name(s)
de Grey, Roger
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Roger de Grey states that when the king ordered Simon de Baldeston, keeper of the lands that had belonged to John de Grey, his father, to deliver these lands to Roger, together with their issues, Simon had already delivered the issues to the treasury. Therefore he requests a writ to the treasurer, barons and chamberlains of the Exchequer that the issues be returned to him, or allowed to him in any debts which his father owes.
Nature of endorsement
This petition is to be sent to Chancery, and the inquisitions which it mentions are to be examined. If it is found that it is so, then the treasurer and barons of the exchequer are to be ordered by writ of Chancery that they are to make Roger due restitution or at least due allowance for the issues of his lands thus delivered to the treasury by the keeper of those lands.
People mentioned
John de Grey, father of petitioner
Simon de Baldeston, keeper of John de Grey's lands.
Note
The petition is dated to 1325 on the basis of CCR 1323-1327, pp.393-394 which is dated at the Tower, 19 July 1325.
Related material

For a duplicate petition with the same endorsement see SC 8/8/386

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 3901
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. IV, 1323-1327, (Public Record Office, 1898), pp.393-394 (order to treasurer and barons of the exchequer to allow the sum of these issues to Roger in his father's debts)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.428a, no.44 (full edition of a later copy of the original petition)
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