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Adam de Lymbergh, Constable of Bordeaux. de Lymbergh Adam King and council. Constable...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/60/2951

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SC 8/60/2951
Date
[1330]
Description
Petitioners
Adam de Lymbergh, Constable of Bordeaux.
Name(s)
de Lymbergh, Adam
Addressees
King and council.
Occupation
Constable of Bordeaux
Nature of request
Lymbergh requests:1) that the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer be ordered to allow the expenses for the costs of his passage to Bordeaux and of his installation as constable of Bordeaux, to which office he was appointed by Edward II.2) that the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer be ordered to make a reasonable allowance in his account for the expenses of his clerks, Hugh de Barhul and others, clerks retained to administer his accounts as constable.1)
Nature of endorsement
Concerning the first petition let him have a writ to the treasurer and barons of the exchequer that they inform themselves of the period between Lymbergh's appointment to office and his taking up office at Bordeaux, and to allow suitable expenses at their discretion.2) Concerning the second petition he should have a writ to the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer that they inform themselves of the necessity of retaining clerks in Gascony after the petitioner was put out of his bailiwick, and of the number of clerks retained, and for the time that the business of such clerks to reside there for to sue against ministers and receivers of account, and to array accounts, making suitable allowance of the expense for the clerks residing for this reason, but for the expenses demanded to make accounts, nothing is to be done.
Places mentioned
Bordeaux [Guyenne, France]
Gascony, [France].
People mentioned
Hugh de Barhul
Walter de Pembrigge
William de Kelleseye
John Deveneys
John de Taunton
Thomas de Tiryngton.
Note
Firmly dated to 1330 by reference to Rot. Parl. Hac. Ined., p. 200 (no. 25).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 5307
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Rotuli Parliamentorum Anglie Hactenus Inediti, Ed. H.G. Richardson and G.O. Sayles, (Camden Society, 3rd Series, vol. LI, 1935), pp.200-201 (nos. 25-26) (transcript of petition on parliament roll)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9063171/

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