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

Catalogue reference: SC 8/54/2675

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Reference
SC 8/54/2675
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 Jersey were accustomed to use such money and of such value as was and is used in the Duchy of Normandy, and that they used to acquit themselves of their rents and farms due to the king by such money, and the king takes a rent in this money every three years called monetagium. He also states that he is enclosing a letter with the opinion of certain wise men on this.
Nature of endorsement
[None]
Places mentioned
Jersey, [Channel Islands]
Guernsey, [Channel Islands]
Duchy of Normandy, [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 8/54/2674

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

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

An inquisition held in Guernsey also in response to that writ is SC 8/54/2671

A duplicate of that writ is SC 8/54/2670

A letter also sent in response to that writ and mentioned in this document is SC 8/54/2673

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 3678
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 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)
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