Isabel Durant, widow of William Durant of Newark. Durant Isabel King and council....

Petitioners

Isabel Durant, widow of William Durant of Newark.

Name(s)

Durant, Isabel

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

Durant shows that the king is bound to her in the sum of 52 marks 10s. 3d. which her late husband loaned to him at Boston in the first year of his reign for which he had letters patent. She petitioned for an allowance of the sum at the last parliament at Westminster in the fourth year of the reign. A writ was sent to the treasurer, barons and chamberlains of the Exchequer to view the letters patent, and to make allowance to Durant if it was found that the loan was still unpaid. They have received the writ, but will not make payment or allowance, so that Durant requests remedy, and that execution be made according to the first award and order, so that she is not impoverished any longer.

Nature of endorsement

Let it be ordered to the treasurer, barons, and chamberlains of the Exchequer that when they have viewed the first writ of order that they make execution of this business according to the tenor of the same writ.

Places mentioned

Seint Botolf (Boston), [Lincolnshire]

Westminster.

People mentioned

William Durant (Duraunt) of Newark, late husband of the petitioner.

For an almost identical petition on the same matter see SC 8/14/667

For a related document see SC 8/43/2142

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. II, 1330-1333, (Public Record Office, 1898), pp.365-6 (writ in response to this petition ordering compliance with the earlier writ)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.379a-b (no.7) (full edition of original petition)