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

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.

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

• 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)