Close Rolls, Edward III: January 1341 | British History Online

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 5, 1339-1341. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1901.

'Close Rolls, Edward III: January 1341', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 5, 1339-1341, (London, 1901) pp. 610-612. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw3/vol5/pp610-612 [accessed 20 April 2024]

January 1341



Jan. 10. Westminster.	Nigel Loryng for 22l. 10s. 9d.
Jan. 10. Westminster.	To the sheriff of York. Order to deliver sufficient carriage and conduct for the rolls and memoranda touching pleas held before the king, from York to Westminster to Robert de Scardeburgh, one of the justices for holding those pleas, as the king has ordained by the advice of the council that those pleas shall be held at Westminster on the octaves of Hilary next and has ordered Robert to cause the rolls and memoranda to be taken thither from York with all possible speed, at the king's cost.
	Membrane 1.
Jan. 21. The Tower.	To William de Edyngton, receiver of the subsidy of the ninth of sheaves, lambs and fleeces and of the biennial tenth granted by the clergy, on this side Trent, at the Tower of London. Because the merchants of the societies of the Bardi and Peruzzi on the king's last passage to Flanders undertook to find the expenses of his household and the wages of his serjeants from 1 June last for a year, 2,000 marks a month of 28 days, the Bardi granting 1,200 marks and the Peruzzi 800, the king assigned to them all the profits of the subsidy of co. Gloucester of the present year, as is found by an indenture in the possession of William de Cusancia, keeper of the wardrobe, and divers other sums of the tenth to be received at the Purification for the better support of this charge, and now with the consent of the council it is ordained that the said assignments shall be observed entire because the money thereof shall not be spent in any other way until they are satisfied for the sums due to them for the said cause, the king therefore orders William to view the assignments and the sums contained in them, which will be shown to him by the said keeper and to pay all the money of the subsidy to the keeper or his attorney by indenture. The king has ordered the receiver of the subsidy in that county to cause all the money which he receives of the subsidy and the collector of the tenth to cause all the money of that tenth to be taken to the Tower and delivered there as is fitting. By p.s.
	To the abbot of Faversham, collector in co. Kent of the biennial tenth last granted by the clergy. Order to cause all the money of the tenth to be taken to the Tower with all possible speed, to be delivered to William there so that he may be able to satisfy the said keeper of the wardrobe, in the name of the merchants of the Peruzzi, for the sum of 650l., assigned to them of the money of the tenth for the term of the Purification next, because they undertook to find the expenses of the household as aforesaid.
	By p.s.
	The like to the following collectors for the following sums to the said merchants of the Peruzzi, to wit:—
	The prior of St. Bartholomew, Smythfeld, London, in the city of London, for 100l.
	The abbot of Waverleye in co. Surrey for 180l.
	The abbot of Eynesham in co. Oxford for 400l.
	The prior of St. Swithun's, Winchester, in co. Southampton for 520l.
	The abbot of Keynesham in co. Somerset for 350l.
	The abbot of Wygemore in co. Hereford for 300l.
	The dean and chapter of the cathedral church of Bangor, in the diocese of Bangor in Wales, for 50l.
	The prior of Llandaff in the diocese of Llandaff for 100l.
	The like to the following collectors for the following sums for the merchants of the society of the Bardi, to wit:—
	The prior of Worcester, collector of a moiety of the tenth in the diocese of Worcester for 260l.
	The abbot of Cirencester, collector of a moiety of the tenth in the same diocese for 290l.
	The prior of St. Nicholas, Exeter, collector of a moiety of the tenth in the diocese of Exeter for 215l.
	The prior of Pilton, collector of a moiety of the tenth in the same diocese, for 60l.
	The abbot of Abyndon, collector of a moiety of the tenth in the diocese of Salisbury for 380l.
	The abbot of Medelton, collector of a moiety of the tenth in the same diocese for 420l.
	The abbot of Burton-upon-Trent, collector of a moiety of the tenth in the diocese of Coventry and Lichfield for 350l.
	The prior of Roucestre, collector of a moiety of the tenth in the same diocese for 80l.
	Henry bishop of St. David's, collector of a moiety of the tenth in the diocese of St. David's in Wales for 60l.
	The prior of Lanton Prima in Wales, collector of a moiety of the tenth in the same diocese for 90l.
	The prior of St. Katherine's, collector of the tenth in the diocese of Lincoln for 520l.
	The prior of Holy Trinity, Norwich, collector of the tenth in the diocese of Norwich, for 800l.
	The abbot of Abberkeneweye, collector of the tenth in the diocese of St. Asaph in Wales for 75l.
	To the abbot of St. Peter's Gloucester, receiver of the subsidy of the ninth in co. Gloucester. Like order to cause all the money of that subsidy for the present year to be taken to the Tower with all speed and delivered to the receiver there, who shall deliver it to the keeper of the wardrobe. By p.s.
Jan. 20. Westminster.	To William de Ravendale, keeper of the hanaper. Order to pay the accustomed fee to Robert de Burghcher, the chancellor and 500l. beyond it which the king has granted to him in aid of his maintenance and for the expenses of his office which have been very great. By p.s. [13,636.]
Jan. 21. Westminster.	To the collectors of customs in the port of Kyngeston upon Hull. Order to permit the merchants of the societies of the Bardi and Peruzzi to lade 190 sacks of wool in that port and take them to Flanders without paying the custom and subsidy thereon, if 190 sacks remain of the 300 sacks which the king granted, they should so take from that port, and of the 230 which he granted they should take from the port of Boston in recompence for the payment of certain of the king's debts to the men of the town of Loveyne, as the merchants have informed the king that 190 sacks of the 350 remain to be laded, and they have paid the custom and subsidy due thereon to Henry Muddepenyng and his fellows, merchants of Almain, to whom they were granted, to hold under a certain form.
Jan. 20. Westminster.	To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides, and wool-fells in the port of London. Order to permit William de Monte Acuto, earl of Salisbury and marshal of England, to lade what is not already laded of 240 sacks of wool in that port, and take them to Flanders, having paid the custom and subsidy due thereon, as the king granted that he should so take 240 sacks in aid of his release, as he was taken prisoner in parts beyond the sea while in the king's service, and now the earl has besought the king to grant that he may take the residue of those sacks in accordance with the grant, as [a great quantity of that wool] (fn. 1) is still in arrear to him. By p.s. [13626.]