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De compotis audiendis et allocandis
R. dilecto clerico suo Magistro Ricardo de Ellesfeld’ Constabulario Castri sui Burdeg’ salutem. Vobis committimus et mandamus quatinus omnia et singula Constabulari(iorum) quondam Burd’ ac quoruncunque Thesauriorum et receptorum dicti Ducatus Deputatorum ad recipiendum exitus ipsius Ducatus pro bone memorie domino C(lemente) nuper pape quinto racione cuiusdam obligacionis per nos eidem domino C(lementi) ac quibusdam Cardinalibus et Militibus in eadem obligacione nominatis que nuper audire ut accepimus incepistis virtute cuiusdam commissionis super hoc vobis facte per Guillelmum de Monte Acuto Milite olim senescallum dicti Ducatus que quidem compota adhuc restant audienda audiatis et allocanda allocetis et ea fine debito terminetis litterasque acquiet(ancie) ill(orum) quorum compota sic audieritis modo debito fieri faciatis. Nos enim que per vos gesta fuerint in hac parte rata et firma volumus permaner(e). Dat’ apud Ebor’ iiij die Decembris.
Per ipsum Regem et consilium.
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Calendar
Entry 10
4 December 1319. York. Accounts to be audited and allowed.
Order to Master Richard de Ellesfield, constable of Bordeaux, who had begun to audit by commission of William de Montagu, former seneschal of the duchy, the accounts of the constables and receivers of the duchy who had received the duchy issues on behalf of Pope Clement V, on account of a bond between the king and the pope and others, to complete the work.
By K. and C.
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