Abbot and convent of Tilty. King and council. The abbot and convent of Tilty request...

Petitioners

Abbot and convent of Tilty.

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

The abbot and convent of Tilty request that whereas the abbot's predecessor made a recognizance in the King's court to the Riccardi of Lucca in a debt of £64 and half a mark and then, not knowing that Edward I in his twenty-fourth year [1296] had seized into his hand the goods and debts of the merchants of the said company, paid the entire debt to the merchants, and the debt has been demanded of them in the Exchequer, for which they have often sued for remedy in parliament, whereby the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer were ordered by writ to certify to the King and council the reason why allowance of the debt was not made to the abbot and convent, to which it was answered that it was because the acquittance of £64 and half a mark was made after the confiscation of the merchants' goods and debts, that the King consider the poverty of their house and the damage to the same if they have to pay the debt again, and allow them the debt and that they may be quit and discharged of the same.

Nature of endorsement

[On face] Certification was returned in Chancery after Christmas last.[On dorse]1) Certification should come before the council.2) Because the great poverty of the house was testified in full parliament, they should have a writ and letters to pay by instalments of 40s. yearly at the usual terms at the Exchequer until the debt is paid.

Places mentioned

Tilty, Essex

Lucca, [Italy].

People mentioned

Riccardi of Lucca

Edward [I], King of England.

For a related petition see SC 8/144/7153