Close Rolls, Henry IV: April 1410 | British History Online

Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry IV: Volume 4, 1409-1413. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1932.

'Close Rolls, Henry IV: April 1410', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry IV: Volume 4, 1409-1413, (London, 1932) pp. 31-32. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/hen4/vol4/pp31-32 [accessed 18 April 2024]

April 1410



April 20. Westminster.	Order to the sheriff of Derby for election of a coroner instead of Robert Wycharde, who is too sick and aged to exercise that office.
April 24. Westminster.	Like order, mutatis mutandis, to the sheriff of Gloucester in regard to Edmund Rodbergh.
	Like order, mutatis mutandis, to the sheriff of Lincoln in regard to Richard Pierson, who is too blind.
April 22. Westminster.	Like order, mutatis mutandis, to the sheriff of Kent in regard to Thomas Marchaunt of Hertlepe, who is dead.
April 12. Westminster.	Like order, mutatis mutandis, to the sheriff of Derby in regard to Roger Wormehill, who is insufficiently qualified, as the king has learned by report of many.
March 14. Westminster.	To the treasurer and the barons of the exchequer. Order not to trouble Thomas de Dacre, son and heir of William Dacre knight, or suffer him to be troubled for his homage; as for a fine paid in the hanaper the king respited his homage until a day now past, commanding livery to be given him of his father's lands; and the king has taken his homage. By p.s. [6497.]
April 25. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Norhampton. Order to give William Harewedoun seisin of a messuage and the moiety of one virgate of land in Morton held by Henry Faber of Morton hanged for felony; as the king has learned by inqusition, taken by the sheriff, that the premises were in the hand of King Edward I and of the late king from the day the said Henry was hanged, and are yet in his hand, that they are held of William Harewedoun in right of Margery his wife, daughter and heir of Giles Seynt Jon, as of his manor of Morton, that answer has been by the sheriff made for the issues thereof, and that King Edward had the year and a day and the waste thereof to the value of 40s. a year.
Feb. 26. Westminster.	To the collectors of the subsidy upon wool, hides and woolfells in the port of Gippewich. Order, upon petition of John earl of Somerset, captain of Calais, to pay and deliver by indentures to him, his attorneys or deputies, all sums of money of the fourth part of that subsidy arising from Allhallows last to Easter next, and all securities now or hereafter taken in that behalf, the king's commands to the contrary notwithstanding; as on 2 November last with assent of the council the king made order that from Allhallows to Easter aforesaid a fourth part of the money arising from a fourth part of the subsidy upon wool etc. then or thereafter shipped in any ports of the realm to be taken over to foreign parts should be applied for payment of the wages and rewards of the town and castle of Calais, and to no other uses, granting the earl that during that time he by himself, his attorneys and deputies should at his will have a fourth part of the subsidy, and the securities taken in that behalf, either by the hands of the collectors or of the treasurer of Calais; and although by letters under the great seal the king gave the several collectors an order to pay and deliver the same as aforesaid, the collectors in the said port have refused so to do, as the king has learned, by reason of a writ to them addressed to the contrary. By p.s. [6468.]
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April 8. Westminster.	To all admirals etc. to whom etc. Order to suffer William Stevenes, John Banham and William Pytte merchants of Bristol after payment of customs, subsidies etc. thereupon due, to take over to Ireland a crayer called 'la Margarete' of Bristol, John Welyfede master, in that port laded with wine, cloth, salt and other merchandise of theirs not of the staple, with the master and twelve seamen for ruling the same, there to purvey salmons, hides and other merchandise to bring to England, any command of the king to the contrary notwithstanding.
April 9. Westminster.	To the same. Order to suffer Robert Russell merchant of Bristol and John Body to lade a crayer called 'la Marie' of Bristol, John Batyn master, with wine, cloth, salt and other merchandise not of the staple, and take it over to Ireland with the master and seamen, and there to sell the same, and buy salmons and other victuals to bring to England, after payment etc. (as above).