Merchants of the company of the Peruchi. King and council. The merchants of the company...

Petitioners

Merchants of the company of the Peruchi.

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

The merchants of the company of the Peruchi state that the king bound himself for his brother Edmund to the sum of £10,000, for the Bishops of Winchester and Lincoln, collectors of a tenth demanded by the pope, which money Edmund received, and that the Abbot of Waltham and Dean of St Paul's, the current collectors, are now demanding this money from them, on pain of excommunication and on other harsh terms. They ask that they might be quit of this obligation, and have letters to keep them unharmed, and that a letter might be sent to the Abbot and Dean to cease from their harsh treatment.

Nature of endorsement

Deprecatory letters are to be sent to the Abbot and Dean in the aforesaid form; and he is to have a writ of Chancery that they are to be kept unharmed.

Places mentioned

Florence, [Italy]

Waltham, [Essex].

People mentioned

Edmund [Crouchback, Earl of Lancaster]

[John of Pontoise], Bishop of Winchester

[Oliver Sutton], Bishop of Lincoln

Abbot of Waltham

Dean of St Paul's.

For another petition by creditors of the same company, see SC 8/323/E560

For a petition by the creditors of the same company, see SC 8/79/3936

For another petition by a creditor of the same company, see SC 8/321/E493

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw I, vol. IV, 1296-1302, (Public Record Office, 1906), p.570 (order to the Abbot of Waltham and Dean of St Paul's to suspend their collection of the tenth and appear before the king's council at the quinzaine of St Hilary to discuss the matter)
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. III, 1292-1301, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.576 (promise to the merchants to keep them unharmed)