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Walter le Gras (Graz). Gras (Graz) Walter King and council Gras requests he can pay...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/49/2434

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Reference
SC 8/49/2434
Date
[c. 1323]
Description
Petitioners
Walter le Gras (Graz).
Name(s)
Gras (Graz), Walter
Addressees
King and council
Nature of request
Gras requests he can pay the debt for which he is imprisoned in the Tower of London in instalments. He is charged with the arrears from when he was keeper in the marches of Wales and cannot pay otherwise.
Nature of endorsement
Let it be delivered to the treasurer and barons that they do in this thing that which they consider is best to be done for the profit of the king.Coram rege.
Places mentioned
Fleet, [London]
March of Wales.
Note
The petition is dated to c. 1323 as Gras was only appointed in January 1322 (CFR 1319-27, p.92). It is possible that the petition is a few years after this appointment, and may even be early in Edward III's reign.
Related material

For another petition by the same petition on a related matter see SC 8/49/2436

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 3635
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Fine Rolls, vol. III, Edw II, 1319-1327, (Public Record Office, 1913), p.92 (appointment as keeper of Dyneboth and Kevenethef castles)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062647/

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