Close Rolls, Henry IV: December 1406

Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry IV: Volume 3, 1405-1409. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1931.

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'Close Rolls, Henry IV: December 1406', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry IV: Volume 3, 1405-1409, (London, 1931) pp. 170. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/hen4/vol3/p170 [accessed 28 March 2024]

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December 1406

Membrane 26.
Dec. 18.
Westminster.
To P. bishop of Lincoln. Order, upon petition of the abbot and convent of Revesby, to nominate in their stead another collector of the second moiety payable at the Annunciation next of the tenth last granted, certifying his name at the exchequer without delay, that the petitioners suffer no loss, damage and travail, and the levy of that moiety be not delayed owing to their insufficiency, and that upon the bishop's certificate they may be discharged; as they have shewn the king that the bishop appointed them collectors in the archdeaconries of Lincoln and Stowe of both moieties of that tenth, payable respectively at Martinmas last and the Annunciation next, that for Martinmas term they have levied a part, and are daily engaged upon levying the residue at no small cost, travail, damage and loss for that they are without the aid of a fellow collector, although divers times heretofore two collectors used to be nominated as the king has learned, one to aid the other, by reason of the grievous charge and lengthy journeys in the said archdeaconries; and the king has considered the poverty of the abbey, that it is of his foundation as of the duchy of Lancaster, and the cost and damage aforesaid. By p.s. [5130.]
Dec. 22.
Westminster.
To the collectors of customs and subsidies in the port of London. Order to deliver by indenture to the treasurer all sums of money, bonds and securities kept in their hands as hereinafter mentioned; as being particularly informed by loud complaint of a number of his lieges and divers aliens of his alliance and friendship and of the commons in this parliament that for lack of safeguard of the sea, since the time that by virtue of an ordinance or appointment therein made the merchants of the realm had the same, great number of damages, robberies and grievances were daily committed, and worse were like to happen if a remedy were not applied, and for other causes him specially moving, with assent of the council the king ordered the collectors to keep in their hands all sums of money to the merchants assigned for safeguard of the sea and levied since 14 September last of the fourth part of subsidies upon wool, hides and woolfells, the subsidies of 12d. in the pound, 3s. upon the tun of wine and other subsidies whatsoever, and all that should be so levied, and all bonds and securities concerning the same, delivering and paying nought to the merchants or others whatsoever, to the end that the same should be safe kept until by advice of the council justice should be done to those and other complainants, or until further order. By C.