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Jan. 18. Westminster. |
To the mayor and bailiffs of Bristol. Order, upon the petition of
Tankard Playson master of a ship called 'la Cristofre' of Lescluse owned
by merchants of Bruges in Flanders, if the said ship with the seamen,
the freight, goods and merchandise therein be arrested for the cause
hereinafter mentioned and for none other, to dearrest the same and
the said master, suffering him to take the same to Calais if the owners
will, and if they shall pay the customs and subsidies thereupon due,
and in case they will not to unlade the said goods and merchandise,
suffering the said master and seamen without let to pass to Flanders
or whither they will with the ship and freight; as the petition shews
that at Bourdeaux the master laded the said ship with certain wines
of merchants of Bristol, brought them to the port of Bristol and there
unladed them, that the ship is now laded with other goods and
merchandise of merchants of Bristol to be taken to Calais, and that by
colour of a late strife upon the coast of Brittany between certain
subjects of the king and certain merchants of Flanders, wherein the
said master is not concerned it is said, the mayor and bailiffs have
arrested and are detaining under arrest the said master and his ship
with the seamen thereof, the freight due for bringing the said wines,
and the said goods and merchandise, although he came thither in hope
of peace and good accord and not otherwise, praying for remedy. |
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Membrane 1. |
Jan. 20. Westminster. |
To William de Chorlegh escheator in Lancashire. Order not to
meddle further with a messuage, 20 acres of land, 10 acres of meadow
in a place called Ravensholme in the town of Dounom, and the moiety
of one bovate of land in the said town containing 4 acres of land, taken
into the king's hand by the death of Thomas de Ravensholme, delivering
up any issues thereof taken; as the king has learned by inquisition,
taken by the escheator, that the said Thomas at his death held no lands
in that county in chief in his demesne as of fee, but held the said
messuage, land and meadow of Henry de Dyneley, and the said moiety
of John duke of Lancastre in right of Blanche late his wife by divers
services. |
Jan. 20. Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Gloucester. Order to cause a coroner to be elected
instead of William de Wighfeld, who is insufficiently qualified. |
Jan. 10. Westminster. |
To William Strete the king's butler, or to his representative in
the port of Suthampton. Order to deliver in that port to the abbot
and convent of Beaulieu Regis for this year one tun of wine of the
king's right prise as they and their predecessors used to have, taking
their acquittance, according to the charter of King Henry III giving
them one tun of wine a year of his right prise in that port between
Christmas and the Purification towards the celebration of masses in
their church. |
Jan. 16. Westminster. |
To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides and woolfells in the
port of London and the king's controller in the said port. Order to
suffer all merchants and others willing so to do to lade in that port
wool, hides and woolfells and after payment of the custom and
subsidies thereupon due to take them to the town of Calais, notwithstanding that the same be not first brought to the staple of Westminster,
the wool there weighed and the hides and fells counted; as although
order was lately taken that wool, hides and woolfells should not be taken
out of the realm before they were brought to the king's staples and the
wool there weighed and the hides and fells counted, that all wool brought
to the staples of Westminster and Winchester should there be truly
weighed by the standard, that every sack and sarpler so weighed should
be sealed with the seals of the mayor and constables of the staple,
or of the mayor and one of them, and after payment of the customs
of the staple the wool so sealed, and the hides and woolfells, should
by bill sealed by the said mayor and constables be brought from the
staple of Westminster to the port of London, and from the staple of
Winchester to the port of Suthampton, and there in presence of the
customers and controller there appointed should be weighed a second
time, nevertheless the merchants of the realm frequenting those
ports with their merchandise have heretofore borne grievous costs
for carrying their wools, hides and woolfells to the said staples and
back again to the said ports, to their hurt and charge as the king
has learned by their complaint, and to spare them expense in that behalf
it is the king's will that all merchants and others willing so to do shall
bring their wool, hides and woolfells to the said staples or to the said
ports as they please, and lawfully without let take the same over
to Calais after payment of the customs and subsidies in the said ports,
notwithstanding that they be not first weighed or counted in the
said staples, saving always the liberty and jurisdiction of the staples
in all other matters. By K. |
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To the collectors of customs in the port of Suthampton, and the
king's controller in the said port. Like order to suffer all merchants
and others to lade in that port and take over to Calais wool, hides
and woolfells, notwithstanding that the same be not first weighed and
counted at the staple of Winchester. By K. |
Jan. 23. Westminster. |
To the justices of the Bench. Order to cease altogether from
making any process by virtue of the king's writ addressed to the
sheriff of Wiltesir, and returned before the said justices, commanding
him to warn William de Walsham clerk and Robert de Walsham
canon in the church of St. Mary Salisbury at Ludyngton to be before
the said justices at Westminster in the quinzaine of St. Hilary to
answer concerning an alleged contempt and further to do and receive
what the court should determine in that behalf, and not to trouble
them contrary to the king's letters patent; as lately being informed
that the said William and Robert in contempt of the king, to his
prejudice and the disherison of the crown, and contrary to the ordinance
in such a case made by the king and the commons of the realm, by
process without the realm impugned the king's right in regard to
the prebend of Ludyngton in the church of Shaftesbury lately void
and in his gift, the presentation whereto by process made before
the said justices the king recovered against the abbess of Shaftesbury
and Robert Andreu, by the writ above recited the king commanded
the sheriff to warn the said William and Robert de Walsham as aforesaid; and after willing of his favour to make provision for the security
of the said William, being prebendary of Ludyngton, the king by his
said letters patent confirmed the estate and possession which the said
William has in that prebend, and willed that he should not in time to
come be impeached, troubled or aggrieved by the king, his heirs or
their ministers whatsoever touching his possession thereof by reason
of any right or title to the king pertaining. By C. |
Jan. 10. Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Berkshire. Order to cause a coroner to be elected
instead of John Edmond, who is insufficiently qualified. |