1344-06-16, Berkhamp

Order date: inferred Regnal year 18 Edward III · Edward III · Close Rolls · Membrane 34

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Dated in source: “June 16” · Place: Berkhamp

Manuscript The National Archives, series C 54, membrane 34 (class as printed in the calendar; consult AALT/TNA for the original roll)

To John Petyt, late sheriff of Cornwall. Order to pay to John de Pytte, king's clerk, appointed to control the sum of wool collected in co. and the cost of the packing and carrying thereof, 41. for his wages 40 days spent in that service at 2s. a day; as the king ordered the of Cornwall to pay him such wages, and because the said clerk could obtain those wages from the sheriff, he surrendered the writ to chancery be cancelled, beseeching the king to order such wages to be paid to him.

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