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Transferred to SC 5/8/6 and subsequently to C 47/8/1
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Nicholas (Nicholau) de Orrau, canon of Bayonne, executor of the testament of Pierre...
Catalogue reference: SC 8/282/14100
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- SC 8/282/14100
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Date (When the record was created)
- [1313]
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Description (What the record is about)
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- Petitioners
- Nicholas (Nicholau) de Orrau, canon of Bayonne, executor of the testament of Pierre Arnaud de Vic, king's clerk.
- Name(s)
- de Orrau, Nicholas (Nicholau)
- Addressees
- King and council.
- Occupation
- canon of Bayonne
- Nature of request
- Nicholas de Orrau, executor of the testament of Pierre Arnaud de Vic, king's clerk, states that during his lifetime Pierre Arnaud ordered his goods to be placed in the house of the Friars Minor in Bayonne, and that after his death, John de Ferrers, then Seneschal of Gascony, because of the king's great need and to preserve the king's honour, took a certain sum from these goods, for which he has a letter, the transcript of which is sewn to this petition. And Pierre Arnaud is also owed money for his wages, for which Nicholas has another letter. He requests letter patent to the present constable, or to the person who will be constable for the time being, to pay Nicholas without delay.
- Nature of endorsement
- The present constable of Bordeaux, or he who will be constable for the time being, is to be ordered that, when he has seen the letters mentioned in the petition, and when he has received information on whether master Pierre Arnaud de Vic on the day of his death owed the king any money, as appears in the transcript, or not, and if it is found that he did not owe the king, then the executors of the testament of the aforesaid Pierre are to be given satisfaction for that debt, receiving etc. charging those etc.And the constable is to be ordered to account for his wages etc., if he has not yet accounted for what etc. he is to pay etc.
- Places mentioned
- Bayonne, [Gascony, France].
- People mentioned
- Pierre Arnaud (Pey-Arnaut, Peter Arnold) de Vic, king's clerk
- John de Ferrers, Seneschal of Gascony.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Gascon Rolls 1307-17 no. 906 is dated 27 April 6 Edward II (1313), and would seem to be in response to this petition. No.6 of C 47/24/3 is dated 27 August 1312, and John de Ferrers died in September or October of that year. See also the discussion of the petition in M. Vale, The Angevin Legacy and the Hundred Years War (Oxford, 1990), p. 172 (incorrectly numbered).
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For the recognisance made by John de Ferrers mentioned here, see no.6 of C 47/24/3
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- French
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Closure status (Whether the record is ‘open’ (available to the public) or ‘closed’ (not available due to a legal exemption))
- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Gascon Rolls 1307-1317, ed. Y. Renaud, (Public Record Office, 1962), no. 906 (instructions to the seneschal and constable to give the executors satisfaction for what was taken by Ferrers)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9682211/
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