Close Rolls, Richard II: January 1394

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

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'Close Rolls, Richard II: January 1394', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Richard II: Volume 5, 1392-1396, (London, 1925) pp. 187-188. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/ric2/vol5/pp187-188 [accessed 23 April 2024]

January 1394

Jan. 8.
Westminster.		 To all sheriffs, mayors, bailiffs, ministers and lieges of the king to whom etc. Order to suffer the men and tenants of Thomas duke of Gloucestre of the honour of Richemonde of Benyngton and Foston co. Lincoln to be quit of payment of toll, stallage, chimenage, pontage, pavage, picage, murage and passage upon their goods and wares as they ought to be, and as all their ancestors ever used to be, being tenants of the said honour, releasing any distress made upon any of them; as on behalf of the men and tenants of the said honour in Lincolnshire it is shewn the king that by custom heretofore kept and approved in the realm they are and ought to be quit throughout the realm of payment of all such customs, and all their ancestors aforesaid used so to be time out of mind, but that in divers parts of the realm they are many times being distrained for payment of toll etc.
Et erat patens.
Jan. 10.
Westminster.		 To the mayor and bailiffs of Lenne and the steward of Lenne of Henry bishop of Norwich. Order, upon petition of Robert Turnebull seaman, master of a ship called 'la Cristofre' of Newcastle upon Tyne, to continue until the morrow of the Purification next in the state wherein it now is, unless they shall have other order in the meantime, and to keep in suspense a plea between John Helmesley, Thomas Astilby and John de Lofthouse merchants and the said Robert; as he has shewn the king that at Lescone those merchants freighted his ship with white herring to be taken to Flanders, that on the voyage thither the ship was driven by a storm to the 'Lennedepes,' a place within the deep sea a great way from land, and through carelessness of a lodesman hired by the said merchants without counsel and assent of the master, averring that they would at all events touch at Lenne with the ship and herring to do business there, was therefrom set upon a sand and well nigh lost, and that of their malice without sound conscience scheming to recover from him their damage and loss, they have haled him before the mayor and bailiffs, although he is not guilty of such carelessness and peril of loss, and are suing him, and by procurement of inquisitions and on other feigned pretences are unlawfully striving for his condemnation; and the king's will is that justice be done with deliberation of sounder counsel, especially inasmuch as he is not yet advised whether cognisance of the said plea pertains to the mayor and bailiffs or no.
Jan. 25.
Westminster.		 To Walter Clopton and his fellows, justices appointed to hold pleas before the king. Order by writ of nisi prius to cause an inquisition whereupon Ralph Duraunt and William Cuppyng 'carpunter' of Bromlegh have put themselves, being indicted for felony, to be taken before the said justices or one of them, before one of the justices of the Common Bench or the justices of assize in the county of Suthampton.
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