Close Rolls, Edward III: January 1360 | 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: January 1360', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 10, 1354-1360, (London, 1908) pp. 606. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw3/vol10/p606 [accessed 19 April 2024]

January 1360



Jan. 3. Reading.	To John de Estbury, escheator in the county of Southampton. Order to deliver to Mary late the wife of John de Borhunte a croft containing one acre of land in Henton called 'Pakeday,' as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that John and Mary jointly held that croft, which is of old escheat and renders 2s. 6d. yearly at the exchequer, and is worth nothing beyond that rent, and although they acquired that croft without licence whereby the king could retain it in his hand, he has pardoned that trespass, considering the slenderness of the tenement.
Jan. 5. Reading.	To the sheriff of Oxford and Berks. Order, upon sight of these presents, under a pain of 100l., to cause forty masons fit to lay stones, and twelve masons to cut free stone to be chosen and taken, and after receiving security from them that they will serve the king faithfully in his works in Wyndesore castle, at his wages, will stay there continually and not depart thence without the licence of the king or of the warden of those works, to cause them to be taken to the said castle before the Purification next, to be delivered to William de Wykeham, the king's clerk, warden of those works, and to arrest all those who are rebellious herein and detain them in prison until they find the said security, certifying the king in chancery of the security so taken, as the king requires many workmen for those works.
	The like to the sheriff of Northampton, the sheriff of Bedford and Buckingham, the sheriff of Huntingdon.