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Robert de Segre, chief executor of James Newbury. de Segre Robert King. Segre requests...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/321/E480

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Reference
SC 8/321/E480
Date
[1302]
Description
Petitioners
Robert de Segre, chief executor of James Newbury.
Name(s)
de Segre, Robert
Addressees
King.
Nature of request
Segre requests that of the sum of £447 12s. 10d. owed to Newbury, part was delivered to the queen by an acknowledgment made at the Exchequer to acquit certain debts which Newbury owed and Segre requests that the king will allow a further sum that Newbury owes the king for the arrears of his account of the same sum, and that the king will aid Segre to levy elsewhere the debts of Newbury from which he can execute his testament and pay his debts. He releases the king from £90 which the king owes, but that the remaining sum of £100 be paid him in some manner.
Nature of endorsement
[On face:]Through this petition the queen is paid.Response to this petition: he is to account in the Wardrobe and the contents of the petition are to be carried out, and after the response is given the petition is to be sent to the Wardrobe.[On dorse, none].
People mentioned
James Newbury, late butler of Queen Margaret
Margaret of France, Queen of England.
Note
The petition is dated to 1302 as a Latin summary of the petition was enrolled on the parliament roll ascribed to the parliament of summer 1302 (PROME, Roll 25, Text/Translation, no. 7).
Related material

For another petition by the executors on a related matter, see SC 8/128/6391

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
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.3 (reference to this petition) & roll 25, appendix, no.7 (full edition and translation of petition)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9529532/

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