1388-04-15, Westminster

Order date: inferred Regnal year 11 Richard II · Richard II · Close Rolls · Membrane 9

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Dated in source: “April 15” · Place: Westminster (Middlesex)

Manuscript The National Archives, series C 54, membrane 9 (class as printed in the calendar; consult AALT/TNA for the original roll)

To the warden of the Flete prison and his representative. Order, of the king's compassion for the poverty of Robert Clere of Potenham, otherwise called Robert Nowell, to suffer him to go free; as in this parliament all the goods and chattels of John Cary knight were adjudged forfeit to the king, in whose hands soever they should be, and the king was informed that at the said John's suit the said Robert was committed to the said prison for a debt of 40s. wherein he was condemned before the barons of the exchequer, although he has nought wherewith to pay the money, which is confiscate by the judgment aforesaid. By K.

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