Manent Franceys (Fraunceis), merchant. Franceys (Fraunceis) Manent King and council....

Petitioners

Manent Franceys (Fraunceis), merchant.

Name(s)

Franceys (Fraunceis), Manent

Addressees

King and council.

Occupation

merchant

Nature of request

Petition for satisfaction of a debt owed to the petitioner in the exchequer for the 800 quarters of corn that he obtained in France for the king's father and stolen from him by the Flemings at sea, for which the present king has already instructed that satisfaction be made; the petitioner requests that the chancellor, when apprised of the costs associated with the buying of the provisions, make letters of great seal in the appropriate amount.

Nature of endorsement

1. Let this petition and the appropriate evidences be sent to the exchequer and recompense be made.2. Notes of process in the exchequer.

Places mentioned

France

Newcastle upon Tyne, [Northumberland].

People mentioned

[Edward II], King of England.

For a petition by the same petitioner see SC 8/261/13021

For a duplicate of this petition see SC 8/261/13047

For a document relating to the same petitioner see SC 8/261/13020

For a related petition see SC 8/293/14649

For a related document see SC 8/211/10540

• Proceedings against the Crown (1216-1377), Ludwik Ehrlich, (, 1921), p.256 (edition of petition)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.32b (no. 9) (edition of petition and first endorsement, from later transcription of petition)
• 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), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rotuli Parliamentorum II, pp. 31-51, no. 9 (summary of references)