1326-07-08, Henley

To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas the king lately William de Monte Acuto, deceased, seneschal of the duchy [of and willed that he should receive the fee anciently assigned for office, to wit 2,000 pounds of Tours, and afterwards, on 20 November, in 12th year of his reign, granted 5,000 pounds of Tours to the seneschal in to the fee aforesaid for the costs and expenses that it was necessary him to expend in reforming the king's affairs there, and ordered that sum be paid to him out of the issues of the duchy by Richard de Ellesfeld, of Bordeaux, and it is now shown to the king on behalf of William Monte Acuto, son and heir of the aforesaid William, that the aforesaid paid a part of the said 5,000 pounds to his father and refused pay another part. which is still unpaid; and although the king, on May, in the 18th year of his reign, ordered the treasurer and barons to with the aforesaid William son of William for the charges and exborne by his father when he was keeper of the town of Berewick-onand seneschal of Gascony, and elsewhere in the king's service and the service of the late king, and for money delivered to him by imprest the wardrobe or by assignment or otherwise in the late king's time and the king's time, and to cause demands made upon William, the son and by summons of the exchequer by reason of his father's debts and of aforesaid payments to be seen and examined, and to cause him to have for the charges and expenses of his father about the matters and if he should have a surplus of any of the said sums at the of such account, to allow such sums to him in the debts due from his to the exchequer, the treasurer and barons have deferred allowing to son of William the arrears of the said 5,000 pounds, wherefore he prayed the king for a remedy: the king therefore orders them to inspect books of account of the said constable, which are in their possession, to cause allowance to be made to William son of William in his father's for what they shall find to be in arrear of the said 5,000 pounds.