Close Rolls, Edward III: December 1335

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 3, 1333-1337. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1898.

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'Close Rolls, Edward III: December 1335', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 3, 1333-1337, (London, 1898) pp. 537. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw3/vol3/p537 [accessed 28 March 2024]

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December 1335

Membrane 2d.
Dec. 13.
York.
To Leo, king of Armenia. The king has received his letters by Gregory Siglike, knight, Leo's envoy, and they have caused him both bitterness and joy; bitterness because of the persecutions which Leo's kingdom suffers from the infidels, joy because of his defence of the faith, and the king will interfere to defend Christian territories against invasion by the infidels when the necessary impediments, which now detain him, have been removed, upon which he has opened his mind to the said knight, Leo's secretary.
[Fœdera.]
Edmund de Bereford, executor of the will of William de Bereford, puts in his place Robert de Brightwell and John de Esyndon, to prosecute the execution of a recognisance for 80l. made in chancery to Edmund and Margaret, late the wife of William, co-executor of William.