Emeric de Frescobald (Frescobaldi) de Frescobald (Frescobaldi) Emeric King and council...

Petitioners

Emeric de Frescobald (Frescobaldi)

Name(s)

de Frescobald (Frescobaldi), Emeric

Addressees

King and council

Nature of request

Emeric de Frescobald, on his own behalf and that of his companions of the company of the Frescobaldi, complains of the great losses they have had from loans they made to the king on various occasions, and from having to pay various factors in England to sue for the recovery of their money, and from being assigned repayment of their loan in Ireland, where it has been expensive and hazardous to recover it, and ask that they might be treated in such a way as would save them and earn the king gratitude and honour. They also add a postscript concerning costs and damages in mines, as is more fully contained on another page attached to this one.

Nature of endorsement

John de Drokenesford, William de Carleton and John de Kyrkley, or two of them if all cannot be present, are to be appointed by the king's writ patent of the great seal to audit the account of the same merchants, both for the money lent by them to the king, and for the issues of the silver mine in the county of Devon lately in their keeping. And when the particulars of all the damages and losses which they suffered by reason of the money lent by them to the king in various places, and also the costs and expenses which they had concerning the money assigned to them by the king to be received in Ireland, and also the expenses of their various associates in payment of their ensuing debts for several years, and moreover all the other damages and losses which they sustained both for the aforesaid reasons and by reason of the said mine, as is more fully contained in the petition, have been heard, and when others of the king's council have been summoned by the Treasurer and auditors if necessary, and other merchants who ought to be summoned, and the damages of the aforesaid merchants of the Society of the Frescobaldi have been carefully examined, due allowance and recompense is to be ordained and made to the aforesaid merchants of the Society of the Frescobaldi for the aforesaid damages, at the discretion of the Treasurer and auditors, in their account for the customs of wools, hides and woolfells. And the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer are to be ordered by the king's writ of Chancery to allow to the aforesaid merchants of the Society of the Frescobaldi what was ordained for their aforesaid damages by the aforesaid Treasurer and auditors. And the king's writ of Chancery is to be sent to each of the said auditors to be at the king's Exchequer at Westminster on the morrow of the Ascension of the Lord next to audit the aforesaid account.

Places mentioned

Flanders

Florence, [Italy]

Burgundy, [France]

France

Flanders

Lombardy, [Italy]

Rome, [Italy]

Devon

Ireland

Westminster

People mentioned

Company of the Frescobaldi

John de Drokenesford (Droxford)

William de Carleton

John de Kyrkley

A related petition is SC 8/200/9966

For a related petition concerning problems with mines, perhaps the one mentioned here is SC 8/47/2344

• An Italian Financial House in the 14th Century, C. Johnson, (Archaeological Journal, XXXVI, pp. 174-1, ), pp.332-4 (full edition of petition)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. IV, 1301-1307, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.513 (appointment of John de Drokenesford, William de Carleton and John de Kyrkley to audit the account of the Frescobaldi, as stated in the endorsement)