1334-06-15, Newcastle upon Tyne
Pardon to the king's kinswoman Elizabeth de Burgo, late the wife of Roger Damory, and the other tenants of the lands of the said Roger, of 12,.000/. required of them by summons of the Exchequer on account of a recognisance of 6,000/. wherein he stood bound to Hugh le Despenser the elder and the like to Hugh le Despenser the younger, which have escheated to the king by the forfeiture of the said Hugh and Hugh ; on petition of the said Elizabeth showing that these recognisances were made by compulsion. By p.s.
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