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Abbot and convent of Vale Royal. King. The abbot and convent request that the king...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/316/E208

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Reference
SC 8/316/E208
Date
[1302]
Description
Petitioners
Abbot and convent of Vale Royal.
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
The abbot and convent request that the king will give his grace until he is able to more fully ordain on the matter of the arrears of the money from the county of Chester from the time of Reginald de Grey so that they can keep the building works of the king's church there from peril and damage. Grey has paid part of the arrears but a great sum still remains in arrears.
Nature of endorsement
The treasurer and barons of the Exchequer are to examine the account of Reginald and make allowance to the abbot, and for this they should call the abbot and certify the king.
Places mentioned
Vale Royal, [Cheshire]
Cheshire
Acton Burnel, [Shropshire].
People mentioned
William de la Marche, Treasurer of the Exchequer
Walter de Langeton (Langton), Treasurer of the Wardrobe
Reginald de Grey, Justice of Chester.
Note
The petition is dated to 1302 as the petition belongs to an original file of petitions returned to the Exchequer from the summer parliament of 1302. For a confirmation of this dating, see SC 8/314/E107.
Related material

For a related contemporary petition from the same house, see SC 8/315/E164

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw I, vol. IV, 1301-1307, (Public Record Office, 1898), p.247 (later order to the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer to search the rolls of Grey and other justices and make full compensation for the sums elsewhere)
  • 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), 1302, summer parliament, appendix, petitions belonging to this parliament and not otherwise recorded, no.2 (summary of this file)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9529260/

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