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Isabel Duraunt (Durant), widow of William Duraunt (Durant) of Newark Duraunt (Durant)...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/43/2144

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This record is about the Isabel Duraunt (Durant), widow of William Duraunt (Durant) of Newark Duraunt (Durant)... dating from [1331] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/43/2144
Date
[1331]
Description
Petitioners
Isabel Duraunt (Durant), widow of William Duraunt (Durant) of Newark
Name(s)
Duraunt (Durant), Isabel
Addressees
King and council
Nature of request
Isabel, widow of William Duraunt of Newark and executrice of his testament, states that she has sued various petitions to various parliaments concerning 52 marks 10s. 3d. which her husband lent the king in the port of Boston in the first year of his reign, for which he has letters patent under the cocket, to which petitions it was replied that the Treasurer, Barons and Chamberlains of the Exchequer were to be ordered that, when they had seen the letters, if the debt was due, they were to let her have payment or an allowance in her wools to be carried out of the realm. Although various writs have been sent to the Treasurer, Barons and Chamberlains of the Exchequer, and they have found that the debt is due, they have done nothing: therefore she asks for justice and a remedy.
Nature of endorsement
The Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer are again to be ordered by a writ of Chancery, containing the first command and the effect of this petition, that if the debt is due, then they are to let her have payment or a suitable assignment, receiving etc.
Places mentioned
Newark, [Nottinghamshire]
Seint Botulf (Boston), [Lincolnshire]
People mentioned
William Duraunt (Durant) of Newark, husband of petitioner
Note
CCR 1330-3 pp.365-366 is dated at Westminster, 16 October 1331.
Related material

For an earlier petition from the same petitioner, see SC 8/43/2142

For a related petition see SC 8/14/668

For a copy of the letters patent mentioned by this petition, see SC 8/43/2143

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 2634
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. II, 1330-1333, (Public Record Office, 1898), pp.365-366 (order to the Treasurer, Barons and Chamberlains of the Exchequer to pay the petitioner, among other people whose payments have been neglected)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062350/

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