Margery de Creye (Cray), widow of William de Creye and executrix of his testament,...

Petitioners

Margery de Creye (Cray), widow of William de Creye and executrix of his testament, and her co-executors.

Name(s)

de Creye (Cray), Margery

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

Margery, widow of William de Creye and executrix of his testament, and her co-executors, asks that the money owed to her late husband by the King for wages for his service on the sea towards Ireland in the Scottish wars in the King's eighth year, for which she has a bill, might be allowed against the account of a debt owed by William to the King for the farm of the warship of the lands of Walter de Trayli, son and heir of John de Trayli.

Nature of endorsement

[None. The endorsement to this petition is on the dorse of SC 8/99/4929] Coram rege.The King wishes to be advised by the Barons of the Exchequer.

Places mentioned

Ireland

Scotland

Dublin, [Ireland]

Winchelsea, [Sussex].

People mentioned

William de Creye (Cray), husband of petitioner

Alexander le Counvers, clerk

Walter de Trayli

John de Trayli.

For the copy of the bill mentioned by this petition, see SC 8/99/4929

For transcript, see no.17 of PRO 31/7/101

• Irish Material in the Class of Ancient Petitions (SC 8) in the Public Record Office, Analecta Hibernica, vol. XXIV, P. Connolly, (Stationery Office of Ireland, 1987), p.34 (brief calendar of petition)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.389b (no.13) (full edition of original copy of petition and attached memorandum)
• The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, Ed. Paul Brand, Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Rosemary Horrox, W.M. Ormrod and J.R.S. Phillips, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rotuli Parliamentorum I, pp. 387-415, no. 13 (summary of references)