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? No Petitioner named 1) Copy of a writ of Edward I to the treasurer and barons of...

Catalogue reference: SC 8/342/16135

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Reference
SC 8/342/16135
Date
[c. 1283]
Description
Petitioners
? No Petitioner named
Nature of request
1) Copy of a writ of Edward I to the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer stating that it is understood that the executors of Cormaylles, the late sheriff of Somerset and Dorset have sufficient in their hands to satisfy the debts in which the late sheriff was bound to the king at the time of his death, and ordering them to levy the same from the corn and other goods existing in the land and tenements of the late sheriff, but not levying it from the inheritance or dower of his widow as long as the goods of the deceased in the hand of the executors is sufficient.2) By this writ Amicia had writs to the sheriffs of Wiltshire, Hampshire, and Somerset and Dorset, and after they were delivered to the sheriffs, John de Cormaylles, son and heir of the late sheriff and his executors deceived the king's court saying that the goods of Cormaylles in the hand of Calstane, Scrug and Bolimer, executors of the sheriff were not sufficient, and petitioned for a writ of the king of this debt to despoil the corn and other goods of the widow, and all the details of the debts are in the hand of Bolimer and Fanelore.
Nature of endorsement
[None].
Places mentioned
Somerset
Dorset
Rochester, [Kent].
People mentioned
Edward I, King of England
Treasurer and barons of the Exchequer
John de Cormaylles (, late sheriff of Somerset and Dorset
Amice [de Cormaylles], widow of John de Cormaylles
John de Cormaylles, son and heir of John de Cormaylles
Roger de Calstane
Philip Scrug
Peter Bolimer, clerk of the sheriff
William de Fanelore, clerk of the sheriff.
Note
The petition is dated to c. 1283 as Cormaylles served as sheriff from October 1278 until January 1283 (List of Sheriffs, p. 122).
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Chancery Miscellaneous Roll 22/5/2 (transferred 7/10/1924).
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Latin
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Publication note(s)
Calendar of Fine Rolls, vol. I, Edw I, 1272-1307, (Public Record Office, 1911), p.181 (order to the sheriff's executors to deliver the castle of Shireburn to the new sheriff)
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9736616/

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