Robert de Bayouse, sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire. de Bayouse Robert...

Petitioners

Robert de Bayouse, sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire.

Name(s)

de Bayouse, Robert

Addressees

King and council.

Occupation

sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire

Nature of request

Bayouse, who has been sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire since Easter in the twenty-ninth year of the King's reign [1301], requests remedy since at each account that he has rendered to the Exchequer he has been overcharged £30 yearly which ought to have been allowed to him for the fees of the honour of Richmond which the Count of Brittany holds of the King's grant, which £30 his predecessors used to receive in their farm and which the King now receives, and that he be allowed the said £30 yearly.

Nature of endorsement

A writ of Chancery should be made to the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer that, if they find it within the farm of the county, the sheriff is to be exonerated.

Places mentioned

Cambridgeshire

Huntingdonshire

Richmond, [North Riding of Yorkshire].

People mentioned

Count of Brittany.

For a related petition see SC 8/1/32

• Memoranda de Parliamento, or Records of the Parliament holden at Westminster, 25 Edw I, Ed. F.W. Maitland, (Rolls Series, vol. XCVIII, 1893), pp.101-2 (no.173) (edition of petition)
• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. I, Edw I and Edw II, (Record Commission, 1783), p.165b (no.58) (Latin summary 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), roll 12, appendix, no.179 (edition and translation of petition)