Louis de Beaumont, Bishop of Durham. de Beaumont Louis King. Durham, [County Durham]...

Petitioners

Louis de Beaumont, Bishop of Durham.

Name(s)

de Beaumont, Louis

Addressees

King.

Places mentioned

Durham, [County Durham]

London.

Nature of request

Beaumont requests that the keepers of the Mint at the Tower of London be ordered to deliver the three upper punches [trusseux] for minting coins that they detain until the king will order otherwise. They were granted the three punches for minting money at Durham.

Nature of endorsement

The king has granted this until Easter next, and for the year next following.

For a grant and confirmation to the bishop on the same matter see mm.46d, 119 in E 159/90

For orders to make three further punches see mm.12d, 114d, 160 E 159/91

For orders to the keeper of the mint and the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer to supply the punches see mm.24, 159 E 159/94

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw II, vol. III, 1318-1323, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.281 (order to the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer to deliver the three upper punches)
• Northern Petitions Illustrative of Life in Berwick, Cumbria and Durham in the Fourteenth Century, Ed. C.M. Fraser, (Surtees Society, vol. CXCIV, 1981), pp.251-2 (no.186) (full edition of petition)