1343-04-23, Mortlake

Order date: inferred Regnal year 17 Edward III · Edward III · Close Rolls · Membrane 14

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Dated in source: “April 23” · Place: Mortlake (Surrey)

Manuscript The National Archives, series C 54, membrane 14 (class as printed in the calendar; consult AALT/TNA for the original roll)

the sheriff of Oxford and Berks. Order to pay to Edith late the wife Whitot, sometime butler of the household, who long served the and his father as such, 3/. for Michaelmas term last, and to pay her yearly henceforth, in accordance with the king's grant to her on 20 in the 12th year of the reign, for the maintenance of herself and children, of 61. to be received yearly for her life by the hands of the of those counties.

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