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Commonalty of Bulwell. King and council The commonalty request that a sum owed to...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/82/4066

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Reference
SC 8/82/4066
Date
[1320]
Description
Petitioners
Commonalty of Bulwell.
Addressees
King and council
Nature of request
The commonalty request that a sum owed to them for oats taken for the king's horses at Clipstone be allowed to them in their farm, and that a writ is ordered to the Escheator of the Trent to whom they pay the farm, that the sum be allowed.
Nature of endorsement
The treasurer and barons of the Exchequer are ordered that when they have viewed the bill, if they find it to be thus, then they are to make allowance.
Places mentioned
Bulwell, [Nottinghamshire]
Clipstone, Nottinghamshire.
People mentioned
William de Melton, wardrober.
Note
The petition dates to 1320 as an allowance was granted to the petitioners on 22 November 1320 (CCR 1318-23, p.280).
Related material

For another petition by the same petitioners, see SC 8/161/8019

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 873
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1318-1323, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.280 (order to the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer to allow the sum)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9148606/

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