1314-10-24, Spalding

Order date: inferred Regnal year 8 Edward II · Edward II · Close Rolls · Membrane 30

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Dated in source: “Oct. 24” · Place: Spalding (Lincolnshire)

Manuscript The National Archives, series C 54, membrane 30 (class as printed in the calendar; consult AALT/TNA for the original roll)

To the keeper of the Forest beyond Trent, or to him who supplies his place in the forest of Ingelwod. Order to cause the bailiff of Penreth to have twelve oaks fit for timber for the construction and repair of two mills, two bakehouses, and the king's prison at Penreth, in the county of Cumberland, burnt and wholly destroyed by the Scots during their invasion of that county, and of the king's mill of Soureby carried away by flood, in addition to the twelve oaks that he was previously ordered to deliver to the bailiff for that purpose.

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