1331-05-29, Bury St. Edmunds

To the same. Gilbert de Boroughdon has shewn the king, by petition _ before him and his council in parliament at Westminster, that the king is indebted to him in divers sums of the time of the late king and of his own time, as appears by divers bills of the late king's wardrobe and of his own wardrobe in Gilbert's possession, and Gilbert is indebted to the king in some debts of the arrears of his account of the time when he was sheriff of Northumberland, and he has besought the king to cause the debts due from him to the king to be allowed in the debts due to him from the king, and if aught be due to him beyond them, to cause payment or assignment to be made to him for the excess: the king therefore orders them to audit Gilbert's account, and if they find that he owes aught to the king, they are to see the bills aforesaid and to cause allowance to be made to Gilbert for as much as they shall find to be owing to him by the king, and if they find that the king is indebted to Gilbert in aught, to cause payment or assignment to be made to him for the amount thereof. By pet. of C. 8. To William Trussel, escheator this side Trent. Order to pay to Edmund _Bacoun the issues of the manor. of Besby and of the soke of Waltham from Parr I. 243 when they were taken into the king's hands until 4 May last, as on 13 April, in the fourth year of his reign, granted to Edmund the manor and soke, which he held at one time of the demise of late earl of Kent, and which had then come to the king's hands by reason of the earl's forfeiture, and the king afterwards caused and soke to be taken into his hands with other lands of the earl it was agreed in the parliament at Westminster that the earl's heir admitted to his inheritance notwithstanding the judgment rendered the earl, and they are now in the king's hands by reason of the and the king committed the custody thereof to Edmund on last. By K.