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William de Burstowe. de Burstowe William King and council. Burstowe recounts that...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/265/13209

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Reference
SC 8/265/13209
Date
[c. 1323]
Description
Petitioners
William de Burstowe.
Name(s)
de Burstowe, William
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Burstowe recounts that the King ordered his son, the earl of Chester, by letters dated at Clipstone on 5 September in his twelfth year [1318], to order his chamberlain of Chester to find for Sapy his reasonable costs for stopping the disturbance which had arisen between the people of Chester and the people of Cheshire, for which Burstowe delivered to Sapy £72 7s 11d, for which he has his letters patent attesting the receipt, but the auditors of William's account have laid it against him as a net debt, and so he has been under arrest for over three years. He purchased a writ for Sapy to come before the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer to acquit him, and while it was pending Sapy's lands were seized into the King's hand on account of his bad behaviour during the great riot against the King and Sapy himself was imprisoned. The King then ordered Despenser, Cantebrigge and Hugate to allow Burstowe the said £72 7s 11d, which they would not without the King's writ. Burstowe requests that the King send his writ to the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer to make allowance to him since he delivered the money as ordered.1)
Nature of endorsement
The council is advised, if it pleases the King, that if the King previously ordered that Burstowe was to be allowed the money, the King should grant him letters in the same matter.2) Coram Rege.
Places mentioned
Clipstone, [Nottingham]
Cheshire
Chester, [Cheshire].
People mentioned
[Edward], earl of Chester, son of Edward II
John de Sapy, then justiciar of Chester
Hugh le Despenser, the son
Thomas de Cantebrigge
Nicholas de Hugate.
Note
Dated to c. 1323, since it was written at least 1½ years after SC 8/6/267, which can be dated to 1321-2 because it belongs to the parliament held at that time.
Related material

For a related petition see SC 8/6/267

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9517156/

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