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Elizabeth de Burgh. de Burgh Elizabeth King. Burgh requests that a certification...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/233/11602

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Reference
SC 8/233/11602
Date
[1337]
Description
Petitioners
Elizabeth de Burgh.
Name(s)
de Burgh, Elizabeth
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Burgh requests that a certification of the debts and damages relating to her and now returned by the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer be viewed and justice be done to her. Many debts of prests of the Wardrobe are now demanded from her both for her and her late husband jointly, and for her in right of her part of the Gloucester inheritance, but her and her husband's castles, lands and tenements with their goods and chattels, remembrances and evidences in the castle of Usk and elsewhere were seized by the late king and the remembrances by which she could have aid are lost and destroyed. She has requested pardon at the parliament of York but has awaited the certification.
Nature of endorsement
The certification is to be brought before the council, and she should sue to the king to have grace.
Places mentioned
Usk, [Monmouthshire, Wales]
York.
People mentioned
Roger de Northburgh, treasurer of the Wardrobe of Edward II
Roger Damary (Damory), late husband of the petitioner.
Note
The petition dates to 1337 as the petitioner was respited the debts on 26 July 1337 (CPR 1334-8, p.475).
Related material

For another petition by Burgh, see SC 8/35/1723

For the certification referred to in this petition, see SC 8/233/11604

For a related petition by the same petitioner, see SC 8/35/1722

For the writ ordering the certification, see SC 8/233/11603

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. III, 1334-1338, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.475 (respite for life of the debts)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9335161/

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