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? No Petitioner named Response to the writ sent to John de Roches by Edward III,...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/54/2671

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This record is about the ? No Petitioner named Response to the writ sent to John de Roches by Edward III,... dating from [c. 1329] in the series Special Collections: Ancient Petitions. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
SC 8/54/2671
Date
[c. 1329]
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
Response to the writ sent to John de Roches by Edward III, stating that he has found by inquisition that the people of Guernsey were accustomed to use such money and of such value as is used in the Duchy of Normandy for payments to the King of France, and that the king takes a rent every three years called monetagium, to preserve this money in this state.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Guernsey, [Channel Islands]
Normandy, [France]
France
People mentioned
[John de Roches, Keeper of the Channel Islands]
[Edward III], King of England
Note
Response to SC 8/54/2670 or SC 8/54//2674, which is dated at Windsor, 28 July 3 Edward III (1329).
Related material

The writ which produced this response is SC 8/54/2670

An inquisition held in Jersey also in response to that writ is SC 8/54/2675

A letter also sent in response to that writ is SC 8/54/2673

A duplicate of that petition is SC 8/54/2672

The petition which produced that writ is SC 8/54/2669

A duplicate of that writ is SC 8/54/2674

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 3676
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Ancient Petitions of the Chancery and the Exchequer ayant trait aux Iles de la Manche, (Societe Jersiaise, 1902), pp.55-57 (translation of this and related documents)
  • Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. I, 1327-1330, (Public Record Office, 1896), pp.350-351 (order to John de Roches to levy the farms and rents according to the value of the money now current there, and to cease levying the remainder at the value of the old money until the next parliament, so that the king may ordain on this matter)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9062887/

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