Gaucem Pagan (Payn), Bidau (Vidal) Manent, Peter Arnold (Pey Arnaut) de Brenguey,...

Petitioners

Gaucem Pagan (Payn), Bidau (Vidal) Manent, Peter Arnold (Pey Arnaut) de Brenguey, Raymond John (Ramon Joan) de Marsan, John Douce, Catherine de La Ryole (La Reole), and other merchants of Gascony.

Name(s)

Pagan (Payn); Manent; de Brenguey; de Marsan; Douce; de La Ryole (La Reole), Gaucem; Bidau (Vidal); Peter Arnold (Pey Arnaut); Raymond John (Ramon Joan); John; Catherine

Addressees

King and council.

Occupation

merchants of Gascony

Nature of request

The petitioners state that they were given various jewels as surety for money owed them by the king, and that these jewels were surrendered for an assignment on the tenth of the clergy of England, of which Bartholomew Florentyn was collector. They were owed arrears of £632, and have now been paid only £300, for which they had to sue five years in England, and do not dare to return home without the money, as they will be imprisoned. They sued to the king in Scotland, where they were told in the presence of John de Bretaigne and Bartholomew Florentyn that they were to be in York at Michaelmas; and they were told there that John de Drokenesford would pay them. He adjourned them to London at Hilary, and then told them, and continues to tell them, that he had no money to pay them. They ask that they might have some ordinance that will guarantee them payment this time, in view of their long wait.

Nature of endorsement

This petition was answered by the petition of Barroncin that John de Drokenesford will pay them swiftly after Easter. And Barroncin will have the king's letter on this to John de Drokenesford.[A previous response is deleted, with the note 'void because answered below'] They are to go to John de Sandale and Thomas de Cant' and show the letters that they have, sealed with the seal of the Earl of Lincoln, or the seals of the king's other lieutenants and clerks assigned to make expenditures in the Duchy of Guyenne; and when the letters have been examined by the said John and Thomas, and kept by them for delivery to the Treasury, letters are to be made to them under the king's great seal for what they find that the king clearly owes them, and then a writ will be issued to pay them from the issues of Gascony by the Constable of Bordeaux; and for the remainder they are to be patient.

Places mentioned

La Reole, [Guyenne, France]

Gascony, [France]

Scotland

York

London

Guyenne, [France].

People mentioned

Bartholomew Florentyn (Florentine)

John de Bretaigne (Brittany)

John de Drokenesford (Droxford)

Amaneu de la Brette (Albret)

John de Sandale

Thomas de Cantebrigge (Cambridge)

[Henry de Lacy], Earl of Lincoln

Barroncin (Bouruncino) [Gauter of Lucca, proctor of various good people of Gascony].

For another petition from the same petitioner, see SC 8/262/13086

For another petition possibly from the same petitioner, see SC 8/294/14670

For a related petition, see SC 8/292/14561