1272-12-14, Westminster

the barons of the exchequer. Order to audit the account of the of William de Glouc[estria] in accordance with the late king's in their hands at the exchequer, as William received at divers times sums of money from the late king's treasury by the hands of the and chamberlains of the exchequer and from the said king's and from elsewhere in order to make divers jewels of the said and for the repair of his jewels, and to make a frontal (spontale) for altar of the church of Westminster, and to make a silver image (ultra) the tomb of Katherine, daughter of the said king, in that and for the making of the shrine of St. Edward, and for divers works, for which William in his lifetime did not render account before at the exchequer or elsewhere, wherefore the late king ordered them William's account of the said works by Henry de Otinton, clerk, other executors of William's will, and they have deferred doing so of the late king's death. Given by the hand of W. de Merton, John de Reygate, escheator beyond Trent.