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Manent Fraunceis (Francisci), merchant. Fraunceis (Francisci) Manent King and council....

Catalogue reference: SC 8/293/14649

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Reference
SC 8/293/14649
Date
[? 1337]
Description
Petitioners
Manent Fraunceis (Francisci), merchant.
Name(s)
Fraunceis (Francisci), Manent
Addressees
King and council.
Occupation
merchant
Nature of request
Manent Fraunceis states that the king has often ordered the Treasurer, Barons and Chamberlains of the Exchequer to give him payment or an assignment for £440 owed him for a purveyance made in France for the king's father, but that nothing has been done. Since the king's return from the battle of Berwick to Newcastle, he ordered the Chancellor and Treasurer to examine the business and make an end of it; they have examined it, and agreed on the sum owed Manent, but have done nothing more, because of the death of Robert de Ayleston, who had been ordered to make the payment. He asks that the Treasurer, Barons and Chamberlains might be ordered to give him payment or an assignment, without further delay, so that he is not ruined by his service to the king and his father.
Nature of endorsement
The Treasurer, Barons and Chamberlains are to be ordered by a writ, reciting the form of the other writ, that, if such a claim was made to them, then, when they have seen the writ previously sent to them and the inquisition of which the petition makes mention, they are to give him payment or an assignment according to the form of his other writ.
Places mentioned
France
Berwick-upon-Tweed, [Northumberland]
Newcastle upon Tyne, [Northumberland].
People mentioned
[Edward II], King of England
Robert de Ayleston.
Note
Tentatively dated to 1337 with reference to CPR 1334-8 p.429, which is dated 24 April 1337, and which may be in response to this petition, and to SC 8/211/10540-44.
Related material

For a related petition see SC 8/211/10541

For a related document see SC 8/211/10540

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
French
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edw III, vol. III, 1334-1338, (Public Record Office, 1895), p.429 (order to pay the petitioner £440 in two instalments)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9735811/

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