TNA: E 142/119 rot. 7 dorse
[The recto is King Edward II's request of 31 December 1308 to the sheriff of Westmorland for information on debts due to the Templars at Christmas 1307.]
Dorse:
The sheriff writes: This writ came to me on Thursday in Holy Week, on which day I held an investigation through reliable, worthy and legal men of my bailiwick, who said that since the lands and revenues of the Templars were taken into the King's hands, no one owes the master or brothers of the knighthood of the Temple anything.
Istud breve michi / venit die Jov' in / cena domini quo die / cepi inquisitionem / per fide dingnos / probos + legales / hominess de balli[v]a / mea qui dixerunt / n[u]llos in ball[iv]a / mea mag[ist]ro' m- / ilicie Templi nec / no[n] omn[ibus] fratribus in / religio' debito / ten' p[os]t t[er]r\a/s + / reddit[us] / orum c[a]p\t/us / in man[u] d[omi]ni Re- / gis capta fu[er]u[n]t.
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The Knights Templar at Temple Sowerby, Westmorland
Non-FictionThese are draft transcriptions of the surviving documents relating to the Templars' estates at Temple Sowerby in Westmorland. There is an 'extent' of the Templars' lands, preserved at Kew, The National Archives of the UK, at E 142/11 mem 4. The doc...
