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Robert Fitz Walter. Fitz Walter Robert King. Fitz Walter requests that a writ be...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/111/5541

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Reference
SC 8/111/5541
Date
[1305]
Description
Petitioners
Robert Fitz Walter.
Name(s)
Fitz Walter, Robert
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Fitz Walter requests that a writ be commanded to the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer and to the Wardrobe to search their records concerning the net sums owed by Fitz Walter to the king. He requests that he is not distrained for these while he is being tried, that money owed to him for his service in Gascony be allowed, and the remainder that he owes be paid in instalments.1)
Nature of endorsement
Coram rege.2) He should have a writ in Chancery to the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer and that they should do according to the form of the petitions, and the king wishes it thus.
Places mentioned
Gascony, [France].
Note
The petition dates to 1305 as a Latin summary of the petition was enrolled on the parliament roll for the spring parliament of 1305 (Memoranda de Parliamento, pp.136-7 (no.216)).
Related material

For the resulting order of enquiry see m.13d in E 159/78

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Parliamentary Petition 3503
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Memoranda de Parliamento, or Records of the Parliament holden at Westminster, 25 Edw I, Ed. F.W. Maitland, (Rolls Series, vol. XCVIII, 1893), pp.136-7 (no.216) (Latin summary and full edition of petition)
  • Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.169a (Latin summary of petition on parliament roll)
  • 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), roll 12, appendix, no. 226 (full edition and translation of petition and related documents)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9150207/

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