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John le Botiller (Butler), son of John le Botiller (Butler). Botiller (Butler) John...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/259/12919

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Reference
SC 8/259/12919
Date
[1310-1318]
Description
Petitioners
John le Botiller (Butler), son of John le Botiller (Butler).
Name(s)
Botiller (Butler), John
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
John, son of John le Botiller, states that the King's father owed his father £63 18s for arrears of his wages and compensation for horses lost in the King's war in Gascony, and for wool bought from him for the King's use, and that the late King made an allowance against this sum for £52 14s that John's father owed him, leaving £11 4s John, the son, is now distrained by summons of the Exchequer for £16 13s 4d owed by his father for the tenth and eleventh granted to the King's father in his twenty-third and twenty-fourth years, and asks that he might have an allowance against this sum for the £11 4s owed to his father.
Nature of endorsement
He is to show in Chancery by what warrant the allowance was made, whether by writ or at the King's command: and if by writ, then the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer are to be ordered that, when they have seen the aforesaid writ, they are to give him an allowance for the aforesaid £11 4s. in the aforesaid debts that he owes the King, according to the tenor of the same writ.
Places mentioned
Gascony, [France].
People mentioned
John le Botiller (Butler), father of petitioner
Edward [I], King of England.
Note
Datable to 1310-1318 by CFR 1307-19 p.56, which is dated 7 February 1310, and by p.362, which is dated 26 May 1318.
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Fine Rolls, vol. II, Edw II, 1307-1319, (Public Record Office, 1912), p.56 (order to deliver his lands to the petitioner, as he has done fealty) & p.362 (order to the Escheator to take the petitioner's lands into the King's hand, as he is dead)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9440532/

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