1335-04-03, Nottingham

To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer, Dublin. Whereas the late king, on 16 May in the 9th year of his reign, pardoned Richard de Clare 1,000 marks of the debts which he owed to the late king at the exchequers of England and Ireland, both his own debts and those of his ancestors for the grea labours and expenses which he sustained by reason of the disturbance in . 389 by the Scots, for the salvation of that land and for their repulse ; at the suit of Giles de Badelesmere, kinsman and co-heir of Richard, the king to order him to be discharged and acquitted at the of Dublin according to the said pardon, of 1,000 marks of debts which are exacted of him in Ireland by summons of the of Dublin; the king wishing to ascertain whether Richard his life, or Margaret, late the wife of Bartholomew de Badelesmere, of Richard's sisters and heirs or any others, had any discharge or in Richard's name for the said 1,000 marks or a part thereof, the treasurer and barons of the exchequer of England to inform the of what they should find by inspection of the rolls and memoranda of exchequer touching the premises; and by the certificate of the and barons it is found that nothing of the said 1,000 marks was to Richard or any other at the exchequer of England; wherefore has besought the king to cause him to have allowance at the exchequer for the said 1,000 marks which are so exacted of him by reason purparty of the inheritance which belonged to Richard; the king orders the treasurer and barons of the exchequer of Dublin to allowance to be made to Giles of the portion of the 1,000 marks touches him in the debts of Richard, which are so exacted, if they find by inspection of the rolls and memoranda of the exchequer of touching the said affair, that no allowance has hitherto been made said 1,000 marks to Richard while he lived or to his heirs or to any in their name. By K.