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Executors of Christina de Marish. King and council. [Petition in 2 parts].1) The...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/161/8045

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Reference
SC 8/161/8045
Date
[1327]
Description
Petitioners
Executors of Christina de Marish.
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
[Petition in 2 parts].1) The executors request payment of the arrears of the sum granted to them by the late king in his tenth year at his parliament of York for the manor of Oveston.2) The executors request payment of the arrears for the movables of Marish found in the manors of Langley and Wraysbury which were taken for the king's use as payment has twice been ordered in the ninth and seventeenth years of the late king, but payment was delayed by the malice of the Despensers, the bishop of Exeter, and Baldock.1)
Nature of endorsement
Show in the chancery [...] the king what they have of the £300 [...] to the Treasurer and chamberlains of the Exchequer [...] of the £300 aforesaid [...].2) Let [...] and if the writs of which [...] in this enrolled, then have [...] the chamberlains or the clause notwithstanding.
Places mentioned
York
Overstone, Northamptonshire
Langley Marish, [Buckinghamshire]
Wyrardesbury (Wraysbury), [Buckinghamshire]
Westminster.
People mentioned
Christina de Mareys (Marish)
Hugh le Despenser, the father
Hugh le Despenser, the son
[Walter Stapledon], bishop of Exeter
Robert de Baudok (Baldock).
Note
The petition is dated to 1327 as the petition clearly refers to a complaint concerning the Despensers and others of Edward II's regime, and the treasurer and chamberlains were ordered to pay the executors on 12 March 1327 (CCR 1327-30, pp.59, 85).
Related material

For a related document, see SC 8/161/8046

For a related petition by the same petitioners, see SC 8/334/E1131

For a petition by the same petitioners on the same matter, see SC 8/63/3120

For a related petition, see SC 8/60/2975

For a copy of a related writ, see SC 8/63/3121

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. I, 1327-1330, (Public Record Office, 1896), pp.59, 85 (orders for the payment to the executors)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9293889/

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