Close Rolls, Richard II: December 1393

December 1393

Calendar of Close Rolls, Richard II: Volume 5, 1392-1396. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1925.

'Close Rolls, Richard II: December 1393', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Richard II: Volume 5, 1392-1396, (London, 1925) pp. 186-187. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/ric2/vol5/pp186-187 [accessed 23 April 2024]

Dec. 4.
Westminster.

To Richard Basy escheator in Yorkshire. Order to remove the king's hand and meddle no further with the manor of Ilkelay in 'Querldale' (sic), delivering to Agnes late the wife of Robert de Plesyngton knight any issues thereof taken; as the king has learned by inquisition, taken by the escheator, that the said Robert at his death held the same as jointly enfeoffed with her of others than the king, by gift of John de Hothom knight to them and the said Robert's heirs.

Dec. 5.
Westminster.

To the abbot of St. Augustine Canterbury. Order at his peril reasonably to content the finders and such as did travail about the salvage thereof, and to deliver to John Odebereshousen and Arnald Sperynge, the owners' attorneys, one empty chest found at Mergate by Robert de Bere, two wains filled with boards of 'knarholt' and 'waynscote' there found, one trendle (trenda) of wax found in the abbot's fee at the 'Downes' by John Gerdy, six kips of 'wildware' and 2½ ells of canvas found at Dele, one 'rother' found there, one barrel of pitch found at the 'Dounes' by Thomas Plomere and others, one trendle of wax found there by John Broun and others, eight trendles by Thomas Wilkman, Nicholas atte Eston, Lawrence Wythe, John Salman, John Saundre, John Lunch and Nicholas Cantoys, twenty boards of 'waynscote' found by Nicholas atte Eston and nine by John Saundre, and other whatsoever in the abbot's keeping of the goods and merchandise in a ship, John Dalynge master or owner (patronus), split by a storm on the coast of Seland; as it is found by divers inquisitions, taken before John Wykes esquire and Robert Merkeley serjeant at arms by virtue of the king's commission to them and the sheriff of Kent, that the same are in the abbot's keeping, and by letters of the duke of Gelre and other the king's friends in foreign parts, and by other proofs produced before the council, the king is informed that the goods are of merchants of the Hanse in Almain and of none other, and with assent of the council he has decreed that the said attorneys shall have restitution, some goods having been cast ashore in the lordships of Seland and Holand, and some in Kent at the islands of Tanet and Walmere, at Sandewich and other places within the liberty of the Cinque Ports and elsewhere. By C.

Dec. 13.
Westminster.

To the constable of the Tower of London and his lieutenant. Order to receive Walter Roos from one who shall deliver him, and to keep him in custody in the Tower until further order.

Dec. 18.
Westminster.

To the bailiffs of Maldoun. Order to safe keep until further order certain goods there arrested at suit of Richard Stace, certifying in chancery the description and quantity thereof, the price and value, and all their dealing in the matter; as the king has learned that Joan wife of Nanfer Molakyn servant and attorney of Gauter de Bardes master of the king's moneys wrought at the bullion of the Tower of London, and the said master's deputy in such office of the bullion at Calais, despising her marriage bed has suddenly and wickedly eloigned herself from his company, and is adulterously running to and fro with John Maistre of Gippewich, having collected no small number of jewels and other goods and property of her husband in his absence and without his knowledge, wherefore arrest was made at Maldoun of certain goods in the keeping of the said John and Joan at suit of the said Richard attorney for her husband; and the king ponders how that the said Nanfer is accountable to the said Gauter, and he to the king for great sums of gold and silver and other property affecting his said bullion, and the king's will is to save him harmless, as he is bound to do.

To the bailiffs of Gippewich. Order to arrest and safe keep all goods and property of the said Nanfer which they may find in the keeping of the said John and Joan or of others.