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Executors of the will of Hugh de Normanton. King and council. The executors of the...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/164/8168

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SC 8/164/8168
Date
[1327]
Description
Petitioners
Executors of the will of Hugh de Normanton.
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
The executors of the will of Normanton request that the king order that they be paid £33 due to them for sheep which were bought for the household of the King's father, as appears more fully in the bill of the keeper of the Wardrobe (attached to the petition).
Nature of endorsement
It should be shown in Chancery with the bill of debt mentioned within, which view should be sent to the treasurer and chamberlains of the Exchequer, and the same debt should be returned to the executors with due payment or convenient assignment, charging those who should be charged.
People mentioned
Keeper of the Wardrobe
Hugh de Normanton.
Note
Dated on the guard to 1327, with reference to CCR 1327-30, p. 86, a 1327 order, in response to this petition, to make payment or assignment to John de Dunham and other executors of Hugh de Normanton for £33, which Edward II owed them for sheep bought from them for his expenses in 1318, as appears by a bill of his Wardrobe.
Related material

For another petition by the same petitioners on the same matter, see SC 8/267/13328

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), p.86 (order to make payment to executors of Normanton)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9294013/

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