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Robert Thorley, Treasurer of Calais, and Reginald Comtors, Warden and Purveyor of...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/144/7163

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Reference
SC 8/144/7163
Date
[1406]
Description
Petitioners
Robert Thorley, Treasurer of Calais, and Reginald Comtors, Warden and Purveyor of victuals in Calais.
Name(s)
Thorley; Comtors, Robert; Reginald
Addressees
Lords of parliament.
Occupation
Treasurer of Calais; Warden and Purveyor of victuals in Calais
Nature of request
The petitioners state that they were formerly discharged of their offices, leaving various sums of money unpaid, for the wages of soldiers and others. The King then re-appointed them, and they now cannot sustain the necessary expenses of these offices. They ask for reasonable payment for the sums mentioned above, and for what is due from the time when Thomas Nevylle, Lord Furnival, was Treasurer of Calais; and that a sufficient ordinance might be made for future payments, by means of an annual sum (and they give examples of reasonable sums) taken from the customs of certain ports in England.
Nature of endorsement
The King, with the advice and assent of the lords spiritual and temporal in parliament has granted this petition in all points, as is contained therein.
Places mentioned
Calais, [France].
People mentioned
William Loveneye
Thomas Totty
Thomas Nevylle (Neville), Lord Furnival, Treasurer of Calais.
Note
According to D. Grummitt, 'The Financial Administration of Calais during the reign of Henry IV, 1399-1413', English Historical Review, 133 (1988) pp.277-299, Robert Thorley was Treasurer of Calais between March 1403 and October 1404, and from after the Easter term 1406 to March 1407. Lord Furnival's period as Treasurer came between these two. This petition would therefore seem to date from the 1406 parliament.
Related material

For a related petition from the same petitioners is SC 8/191/9533

For a possibly related petition, see SC 8/342/16110

For transcript, see no.31 of PRO 31/7/113

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9209344/

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