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Henry Eastry, Prior de Canterbury Eastry Henry King Prior de Canterbury 1) Eastry...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/37/1847

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Reference
SC 8/37/1847
Date
[1327-1331]
Description
Petitioners
Henry Eastry, Prior de Canterbury
Name(s)
Eastry, Henry
Addressees
King
Occupation
Prior de Canterbury
Nature of request
1) Eastry states that he was appointed to attend to affairs in Gascony with Bourton. Bourton received his fee for all of his life, but Eastry has not received his except his expenses, though he has served the king and his father for a long time. He requests that a suitable consideration is made as seems fit to the king and his council.2) Eastry states that he has expended 60 marks for horses for the voyages made for the king and his father, but he has received no recompense. He requests some suitable consideration as seems fit to the king and his council.
Nature of endorsement
1) Coram rege;2) It seems to the council that he well deserves to have consideration if it pleases the king.
Places mentioned
Gascony, [France]
Rome, [Italy]
France
Toulouse, [Languedoc, France]
People mentioned
Richard de Bourton
Note
Datable from the petition to after the accession of Edward III (1327)
Related material

For a related petition see SC 8/100/4990

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 1382
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Le Tresor des Chartres de Guyenne sous Edouard II, E. Deprez, (, 1913), p.242 (edition of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062050/

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