Close Rolls, Henry VI: December 1426

Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry VI: Volume 1, 1422-1429. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1933.

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'Close Rolls, Henry VI: December 1426', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry VI: Volume 1, 1422-1429, (London, 1933) pp. 296-297. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/hen6/vol1/pp296-297 [accessed 26 March 2024]

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December 1426

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.