Close Rolls, Richard II: February 1392

Calendar of Close Rolls, Richard II: Volume 4, 1389-1392. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1922.

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'Close Rolls, Richard II: February 1392', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Richard II: Volume 4, 1389-1392, (London, 1922) pp. 521-522. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/ric2/vol4/pp521-522 [accessed 14 April 2024]

February 1392

Feb. 22.
Westminster.		 To the mayor and sheriffs of London. Writ of supersedeas until Whitsuntide next in respect of the further execution of the king's late writ, commanding them under a pain of 1,000l. before Ash Wednesday next to execute an ordinance made by the king, with assent of the lords and great men in the last parliament, at suit of John duke of Aquitaine and Lancastre, the bishops of Lincoln and Ely, certain other lords of the realm, and the dwellers in divers messuages, inns and houses in Holbourne, Smythfeld, 'Seint Jonestrete,' 'Clerkenwelstrete,' the Bailey by Neugate and 'Fletstrete' in the suburb of London, for the safety and health of the people whereto the king is bound to lend a helping hand, confirming an ordinance made by the late king in parliament in 35 Edward III, that all oxen, sheep, swine and other great beasts thenceforward slaughtered for sustenance of the city should be taken to Stratforde on the one hand and Knyghtbrigge on the other and there slaughtered, and no nearer, that their entrails should there be scoured and so brought to the city with the flesh for sale, and that any butcher doing aught to the contrary should incur forfeiture of the flesh of beasts slaughtered nearer than the said towns and pain of imprisonment for one year, the said suitors having shewn in the last parliament that contrary to that ordinance so many dunghills and stinking issues and entrails of great beasts, calves, sheep and swine slaughtered by butchers within the city and suburbs are set and cast forth in certain places in Holbourne by 'Holbournebrigge' that the air has long been defiled and tainted, whence have many times arisen great sicknesses and other intolerable grievances to them and to others coming and going and having their conversation in those parts, to their nuisance and peril of their lives, so that in the meantime with advice of the council the king may deliberate what may be done for the credit of the city and the peace of the people thereof and of others flocking thereto; as full execution of the said ordinance may not conveniently be made before the aforesaid date, as the king has learned, because of the shortness of the time, and his will is that the mayor and sheriffs incur not the said pain in the mean time. By K. and C.
Feb. 26.
Westminster.		 To the sheriff of York. Order at his peril to cause proclamation to be made that all lords, knights, esquires and others of whatsoever degree or condition be arrayed according to their estate and means, furnished with bows, arrows, armour and other fencible arms, and kept in array, so that if after the present truce war shall arise, they shall be ever ready to march against the king's enemies upon warning received; as for defence of the realm and his lieges the king's desire is in that case to guard against hurt and peril from sudden attacks of the enemy. By K. and C.
Like writs to singular the sheriffs throughout England, and to John duke of Aquitaine and Lancastre or his chancellor in the duchy.
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