Dec. 5. Westminster. |
To the treasurer and the barons of the exchequer. Order
during pleasure, upon petition of Queen Joan, to cause all business,
plaints, actions and demands which affect her by reason of the
castles, manors, towns, lordships, rents, lands, farms, fee farms,
wardships of lands, marriages, keeping of alien priories, farms and
apports thereof, customs petty and great, liberties and possessions
whatsoever to her now or hereafter granted in dower or otherwise
for life, and by reason of the queen's gold, moneys, farms, fee
farms, rents, apports and debts whatsoever to her now or hereafter due, and her bailiffs, officers and ministers of castles, manors,
towns, etc. aforesaid in that which concerns their offices to be
heard, entreated and furthered even as the king's own bailiffs
etc., and them that owe the queen's gold etc. even as the king's
own debtors; as her petition shews that by writ under the great
seal the late king commanded the then treasurer and barons
that all such business of hers before them should be heard etc.
even as his own, that her bailiffs, officers and ministers in all
that concerned her business should be entreated as his own, and
those owing her queen's gold and other money or farms as his
debtors, as contained by an enrolment among the memoranda
of the exchequer, and as in divers records of the exchequer
in time of Queen Isabel in her widowhood after the death of King
Edward [II], for her peace and for speedy levying of her moneys
and debts praying a writ under the great seal to the effect above
mentioned. By C. |