Close Rolls, Edward III: December 1330

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 2, 1330-1333. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1898.

'Close Rolls, Edward III: December 1330', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 2, 1330-1333, (London, 1898) pp. 111. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw3/vol2/p111a [accessed 19 April 2024]

December 1330



Dec. 22. Westminster.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer, and to his chamberlains. The abbot of Rievaux has shewn the king, by petition before him and his council in parliament, that the late king received from him a loan of 20 marks by the hand of William de Melton, then his clerk, for the expedition of his affairs, which William delivered to Master John de Weston, then chamberlain of Scotland, by the said king's order, as appears by his letters patent in the abbot's possession, and the abbot has besought the king to cause the said 20 marks to be allowed to him in the payment of the tenth for four years now current to be made by the abbot: the king therefore orders them to see the aforesaid letters, and if they find that the aforesaid sum is due to the abbot, to cause it to be paid to him out of the treasury, or to cause him to have an assignment. By pet. of C.