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Berthalot (Bartholomew) de Fayet, clerk. de Fayet Berthalot (Bartholomew) King and...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/287/14325

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Reference
SC 8/287/14325
Date
[c. 1340]
Description
Petitioners
Berthalot (Bartholomew) de Fayet, clerk.
Name(s)
de Fayet, Berthalot (Bartholomew)
Addressees
King and council.
Occupation
clerk
Nature of request
Berthalot de Fayet requests the office of remembrancer in Bordeaux castle, with the accustomed fee, and the keeping of the papers of dead notaries, which he holds of the gift of the Seneschal of Gascony in the manner in which it was given by the king to John Monfichet. And he asks for no fee except 12d. sterling, provided that, if he is removed from office, he might keep the fee.
Nature of endorsement
The Constable is to be ordered that if he is suitable for the said office he is to receive him; but he is to receive no wages except for the accustomed 12d.
Places mentioned
Bordeaux, [Guyenne, France].
People mentioned
John Monfichet.
Note
The petitioner has been granted this office by 21 June 14 Edward III (1340), as the Constable of Brodeaux is given instructions on that day about the payment of his wages, and on 14 September in the same year he is granted the power to make public instruments based on the papers in his keeping (m.11 of C 61/52).
Related material

For instructions to pay the petitioner the arrears of his wages for this office, and for the future payment of these wages, and for a grant of the power to make public instruments based on the papers in his keeping, see m.11 of C 61/52

For a transcript, see p.60 of PRO 31/7/128

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Catalogue des rolles Gascons, Normans et Francois, vol. I, ed. T. Carte, (, 1743), p.101 (brief calendar of entry in Gascon Rolls)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9735485/

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