Close Rolls, Edward III: April 1359 | British History Online

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 10, 1354-1360. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1908.

'Close Rolls, Edward III: April 1359', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 10, 1354-1360, (London, 1908) pp. 558. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw3/vol10/p558 [accessed 23 April 2024]

April 1359



April 11. Westminster.	To John de Estbury, escheator in Wilts. Order to amove the king's hand without delay from the goods and chattels of John Doyly, clerk, vicar of Poterne, and not to intermeddle further therewith, nor to molest the vicar by reason of an outlawry, as the said vicar has shown the king that whereas Henry Cove, citizen and mercer of London, has impleaded John Doyly, clerk, before the justices of the Bench, for a certain debt which Henry is demanding of him, and because this John did not come before the justices to answer Henry he was put in exigents to be outlawed in the husteng of London, and was afterwards outlawed for that cause, and because the said vicar has the same name, the escheator, pretending that he is the person whom Henry sued, has taken his goods and chattels into the king's hand as forfeit, whereupon the vicar has prayed the king to provide a remedy, and the mayor, aldermen and commonalty of the city of London have testified by their letters patent shown in chancery that Henry came before them and confessed that the vicar was not the person against whom he sued.