1275-05-15, Westminster

Order date: inferred Regnal year 3 Edward I · Edward I · Close Rolls · Membrane 17

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

Manuscript The National Archives, series C 54, membrane 17 (class as printed in the calendar; consult AALT/TNA for the original roll)

To the barons of the exchequer. Order to cause William Giffard, to whom the king lately committed the castle of Norwich and the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk with all appurtenances-for a fixed sum (certo) yearly, to be discharged and acquitted of 108s. 4d. yearly for ali the time during which he was sheriff of the said counties, with which sum the barons (nos) have charged him yearly for the fees for watching (waytfeodis) pertaining . to the castle, contrary to the king's commission aforesaid, To the escheator beyond lrent.

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