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Ralph de Gorges. de Gorges Ralph King and council. Gorges requests that the king...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/313/E65

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Reference
SC 8/313/E65
Date
[? 1302]
Description
Petitioners
Ralph de Gorges.
Name(s)
de Gorges, Ralph
Addressees
King and council.
Nature of request
Gorges requests that the king will make restoration to him for the horses that he and his father lost in the king's service in Gascony in lands or by other means.1)
Nature of endorsement
It was ordered by writ of the king to Cambridge and Sandale that they should certify the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer, and they answered that they were ignorant of the loss because Cambridge was at Bayonne at that time and Sandale was in England and has not yet returned to Gascony.2) Let it remain.
Places mentioned
Gascony, [France]
Bayonne, [Gascony, France].
People mentioned
Ralph de [Gorges], father of the petitioner
Thomas de Cantebrig (Cambridge)
John de Sandale.
Note
The petition is dated to? 1302 as the majority of petitions in this file probably date to this year. In addition reference was made to Thomas de Cambridge and John de Sandale who were clerks assigned to audit the accounts and claims of the king's stipendiaries in the duchy for wages and compensation for horses and were certainly active in April 1301 (CPR 1292-1301, p.586).
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/C9529116/

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