Master and brethren of the hospital of Burton Lazars. King and council. The master...

Petitioners

Master and brethren of the hospital of Burton Lazars.

Addressees

King and council.

Nature of request

The master and brethren request that they can be served of the money due to them by tally for wheat taken from them for Mortimer by Appleby, his purveyor when the king was last at Nottingham.1)

Nature of endorsement

Coram rege.2) The king holds the chattels of traitors and felons so freely that he does not have to acquit their debts.

Places mentioned

Burton Lazars, [Leicestershire]

Nottingham, [Nottinghamshire].

People mentioned

Roger de Mortimer

John de Appelby (Appleby), purveyor of king's household.

For a related document, see SC 8/210/10457

For another petition by the same petitioners, see SC 8/97/4831

For a related document, see no.3377 in C 81/616

For a petition from a master of the hospital, see SC 8/190/9458

• Rotuli Parliamentorum; ut et Petitiones, et Placita in Parliamento, vol. II, Edw III, (Record Commission, 1783), p.51a (no.82) (full edition of later copy of original 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), Appendix of Unedited Petitions, 1307-1337, Rotuli Parliamentorum II, pp.31-51, no.82 (summary of references)