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195. De debitis domino regi patri domini regis debitis in gwerra et ante gwerram, que fuerunt debita illa, et qui fuerunt debitores et si sint defuncti qui sunt eorum heredes vel eorum bona possidentes. Dicunt major et cives super sacramentum suum et in fide qua tenentur domino regi, quod Lodewicus rex Francie debuit in Civitate Londoniarum m marcas quas post gwerram misit Londonias Serloni le Mercer, Willelmo Hardel laico, Winelmo filio [Benedicti]', Salamoni de Basingges et Henrico de Sancto Albano ut denarios illos pro eo redderent debitoribus suis.2 Set quid de denariis illis fecerunt, ignorant. Ideo loquendum est cum domino rege. Postea datus est dies maiori et civibus Londoniarum a die Sancti Michaelis in unum mensem ad respondendum de predictis m marcis.
1. Suggested by 316.
2. debitoribus suis refers to Henry debtors.
Of debts owing to the king, father of the present king, during and before the war, what they were and who were the debtors, and if they have died who are their heirs or the possessors of their goods. The mayor and citizens say upon their oath and in the faith in which they are bound to the king, that Louis, King of France, owed 1000 marks in the City of London, which he sent after the war to London to Serb o le Mercer, William Hardel, layman, William fitz Benet, Solomon of Basing and Henry of St. Albans that they might repay the money for him to his creditors; but what they did with the money they do not know. Therefore, let the matter be discussed with the king. Afterwards the mayor and citizens were given a day, a month after Michaelmas, to answer for the aforesaid 1000 marks. |