Bailiffs and good people of the town of Norwich. King and council The bailiffs and...

Petitioners

Bailiffs and good people of the town of Norwich.

Addressees

King and council

Nature of request

The bailiffs and good people of the town of Norwich request satisfaction in the repayment of 200 marks lent to Edward II in 1311 and 100 marks lent to him in 1313, in both of which loans Edward II promised to make repayment by allowance on the fee farm of the city.

Nature of endorsement

Let them show their letters and writs in chancery and they shall have a writ to the treasurer and barons of the exchequer that the sums referred to in the petition will be allowed according to the form of the petition.

Places mentioned

Norwich, [Norfolk].

People mentioned

John de Sendal (Sandall), then treasurer

John de Okham, then Wardrober.

For the writ of 21 June 1311 promising repayment of the loan see SC 8/170/8476

For letters patent of 20 June 1311 recording the loan of 200 marks see SC 8/170/8475

For letters patent of 24 September 1313 recording the loan of 100 marks see SC 8/170/8477

• Calendar of Close Rolls, Edw III, vol. I, 1327-1330, (Public Record Office, 1896), p.28 (resulting writ to the treasurer and barons of the exchequer ordering allowance of 300 marks on the farm of Norwich)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum Anglie Hactenus Inediti, Ed. H.G. Richardson and G.O. Sayles, (Camden Society, 3rd Series, vol. LI, 1935), pp.142-143 (full edition of petition)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.430a (no.16) (Latin summary of later copy of petition on parliament roll)