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Oct. 5.
Westminster. |
To Thomas de Ponte Fracto, appointed to take provisions for the king's
horses and stud. Order to deliver all the provisions made by him to
William le Ferour, keeper of the said horses and stud, by indenture. |
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By C. |
Oct. 6.
Waltham. |
To John de Charnels, keeper of the great wardrobe. Order to account
with Master John de Offord, late keeper of the privy seal, for his wages for
the time when he was attendant upon the king's affairs without the court,
allowing him 20s. a day and to deliver a bill to him for the sums found
to be due to him by that account. |
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Membrane 14. |
Oct. 2.
Westminster. |
To John Darcy 'le fiz,' keeper of the manor of Bristwyk in Holdernesse,
or to him who supplies his place. Order to cause another mill and another
house for the common oven of the town of Herdon, which is a member of
that manor, to be erected in the place where they previously stood, or in
another suitable place in that town, as he shall see fit by the advice of
Nicholas de Bokeland, the king's clerk, notifying all the bakers and brewers
of that town that they shall cause their corn to be ground and their flour
to be baked at the said mill and oven, as the king has learned that the mill
and house there, from which he and his predecessors used to receive great
profits, are now ruinous for lack of good keeping. |
Oct. 2.
Westminster. |
To John de Coggeshale, escheator in cos. Essex, Hertford and
Middlesex. Order to cause Richard son of Richard de Playcz to have seisin
of all the lands whereof his father was seised at his death in his demesne
as of fee, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by William de Northo,
late escheator in co. Suffolk, that Giles de Playcz, son and heir of Richard
the father, tenant in chief, has died while a minor in the king's wardship,
and that Richard the son is Giles's brother and next heir and of full age.
The king has taken Richard's homage for all the lands which his father
held in chief and has rendered them to him. |
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The like to the following, 'mutatis mutandis,' to wit:— By p.s. |
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Warin de Bassyngburn, escheator in cos. Cambridge and Huntingdon. |
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William de Northo, escheator in cos. Surrey and Sussex. |
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Edward de Cretyng, escheator in cos. Norfolk and Suffolk. |
Oct. 8.
Westminster. |
To the mayor and bailiffs of Bristoll. Order to release from prison
William Whyte of Tynbegh, mariner, and to release his goods and chattels
after taking security for his good conduct and that he will not take any
victuals to Scotland or elsewhere to the king's enemies, as at William's
suit beseeching the king to provide a remedy, as he was driven by a storm
at sea with his ship to Dumbretayn in the parts of Scotland, and there
detained in prison for a month by the king's enemies of those parts, and he
was afterwards imprisoned by the mayor and bailiffs and the goods and
chattels found with him seised into the king's hand because certain
malevolent persons pretended that he went to those parts several times of
his own accord, contrary to the proclamations, the king ordered them to
release him by a mainprise and to take an inquisition upon the matter and
certify the king thereupon in chancery, and by the inquisition it is found
that William, being lately in his ship in the Irish sea, was driven by a
tempest to Dunbretayn in Scotland, and was there detained by the king's
enemies for a quinzaine and more, and that he did not go to those parts of
his own free will. By C. |
Oct. 5.
Waltham. |
To John de Charnels, keeper of the great wardrobe. Order to deliver to
Robert de Sadyngton, the chancellor, what is in arrear to him of his fee of
wax which he receives from the king by reason of his office from the time
of the keeper's appointment, and to pay him that fee henceforth. |
Oct. 8.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Oxford and Berks. Order to cause hay, oats, litter and
other necessaries for the maintenance of the king's stud for the present
winter season to be provided and delivered to William le Ferour, keeper of
that stud, or to him who supplies his place, by indenture, and to pay the
customary wages to the keepers of the said stud for the time that they are
in arrear to them, as the king has learned that provision for the said season
has not been made. |
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The like to the sheriff of Southampton. |
Oct. 6.
Westminster. |
To Thomas Cary, escheator in cos. Somerset and Dorset. Order to
deliver to Katherine, late the wife of William de Monte Acuto, earl of
Salisbury, tenant in chief, the knights' fees in that bailiwick of those which
the king has assigned to her to hold in dower, of those which belonged to
her husband, to wit: an eighth part of a fee which Robert Gyen holds in
Hoggeshole, co. Somerset, extended at 5s. yearly; an eighth part of a fee
which Robert de Mareshalesheighes holds in Hoggeshole, extended at 5s.
yearly, a fourth part of the fee which John de Bonham holds in Dycchenescove, co. Somerset, extended at 10s. yearly; three parts of a fee which
Thomas de Curtenay holds in Cricket Malherbe in the same county
extended at 30s. yearly; a moiety of a fee which Nicholas de Monte Acuto
holds in Sotton Mountagu, co. Somerset, extended at 40s. yearly; a fortieth
part of a fee which John le Frenssh holds in Swere, co. Dorset, extended
at 12d. yearly; a moiety of a fee which Ralph de Ufford, holds in Motborugh
and Berewyk, co. Dorset, extended at 20s. yearly, and a fee which Geoffrey
de Malherbe holds in Fyneton and Worthyhale, co. Devon, extended at
100s. yearly. |
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To Walter de Horton, escheator in co. Devon. Like order to deliver to
Katherine the said fee in Fyneton and Worthyhale. |
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To Thomas de Cary, escheator in cos. Somerset and Dorset. Order to
deliver to Katharine, late the wife of William de Monte Acuto, earl of
Salisbury, tenant in chief, the advowson of Chedeseye church, to hold in
dower, as of the advowsons which the earl held at his death the king has
assigned to her the following, to wit: the advowson of Chedeseye church,
co. Somerset, extended at 20l. yearly, and the advowson of Stupellavynton
church, co. Wilts. extended at 20 marks yearly. |
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To John Mauduyt, escheator in co. Wilts. Like order to deliver to
Katherine the said advowson of Stupellavynton church, to hold in dower. |
Oct. 1.
Westminster. |
To William de Ravendale, keeper of the hanaper of chancery. Order to
pay to Master John de Thoresby, the king's clerk, 30 marks for Michaelmas
term last, in accordance with the king's grant to him of 60 marks to be
received yearly of the issues of the hanaper until the king shall provide
him with a benefice which he shall accept. |
Oct. 17.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Bedford. Order to cause a coroner for that county to
be elected in place of Giles Bossart, who is insufficiently qualified. |
Oct. 6.
Waltham. |
To John Bachet, Benedict Taverner and William Loveryk, appointed to
inspect ships and boats in cos. Kent and Sussex and to arrest as forfeit to
the king customable things found not coketted or customed therein. Order
to bring back all the ships arrested by them and which have broken the
arrest, and keep them safely for the king until further order, as the king is
informed that they lately arrested certain ships as forfeit, laden with wool,
hides and wool-fells not coketted or customed, and the master and
mariners of those ships, the arrest being broken, have departed with the
ships and wool, etc. to Normandy, Picardy and elsewhere, selling the wool,
etc. and depositing the money for the same and other merchandise bought
by them in the said ports, and have brought back the ships with the money
and merchandise to the ports of those counties. By C. |
Oct. 15.
Westminster. |
To John de Coggeshale, escheator in cos. Essex, Hertford and Middlesex.
Order not to intermeddle further with the lands which belonged to William
de Gyney at his death, as William de Gyney, son and heir of the said
William, who held of the king as of the honour of Reylegh, lately in the
king's hand and now in the hand of Queen Philippa by the king's grant,
by knight's service, has proved his age before the escheator. |
Oct. 20.
Westminster. |
To Warin de Bassyngbourn, escheator in co. Cambridge. Order not to
intermeddle further with the lands which belonged to John de Shardelowe,
restoring the issues thereof, as the king has learned by inquisition taken
by the escheator that John at his death held no lands in chief in that
bailiwick, but that he held lands of other lords by divers services. |
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The like to John Haward, escheator in co. Suffolk, as the king has
learned the same by inquisition taken by Edward de Cretyng, late
escheator in that county. |
Oct. 12.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to supersede the
demand made upon Dinus Forsetti, Peter Byny and their fellows, merchants
of the society of the Bardi, for 1,226l. 13s. 4d., and to cause that sum to be
allowed to them in any debts due by them at the exchequer, as the king
has pardoned them that sum, at which they were assessed by William de
Cusancia and his fellows, appointed to assess foreign merchants staying in
the city of London, at the subsidies granted to the king, and with which they
were charged before Robert de Wodhous, archdeacon of Richmond, appointed
to audit and determine their accounts. By p.s. |
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Membrane 13. |
Aug. 26.
Waltham. |
To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides and wool-fells in the port of
London. Order to cause ½ mark a sack of wool to be allowed to Matthew
Canaceon, Henry Picard, Walter Prest of Melton Moubray and Walter de
Chiriton on wool taken from that port to parts beyond up to 4,000l. in
accordance with the king's grant to them, as they lent the king 5,000l. for
the war at his request, and paid that sum to the treasurer, and the king
granted that they might buy his letters obligatory to divers merchants for
wool taken from them at Durdraght up to the sum of 10,000l., for which sum
they undertook to discharge the king towards the said merchants, and with
the assent of Thomas de Melchebourn and his fellows, merchants to whom
the king granted all the customs and subsidies of the realm for a time, the
king granted them the said allowance. The king has sent like orders to the
collectors of customs in the ports of Kyngeston upon Hull, Boston and
Bristol to cause such allowance to be made up to 2,500l., 2,500l. and
1,000l. respectively. By K. |
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Mandate in pursuance to the following, to wit:— |
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The collectors in the port of Boston. |
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The collectors in the port of Kyngeston upon Hull. |
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The collectors in the port of Bristoll. |
Oct. 1.
Westminster. |
To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides and wool-fells in the port of
London. Order to pay to John de Hanon[ia], or to his attorney, 500 marks
for Michaelmas term last, in accordance with the king's grant to him of
1,000 marks, to be received yearly of the issues of the said customs. |
Oct. 6.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to take the oath of
the merchants of the societies of the Bardi and Peruzzi for the sale of the
wool granted to them and their expenses upon that wool and after viewing
the accounts for that sale and other accounts for taking such wool to
Flanders, and to cause allowance to be made to those merchants for all
that they shall be found to be unduly charged for by the auditors of their
accounts, in the debts which they owe at the exchequer, as the merchants
have besought the king to provide a remedy, as they lately received 2,281
sacks 43 cloves 4½ pounds of the king's wool of divers counties upon certain
conditions to be taken to Flanders and there sold for the king, and although
they charged themselves with so much after deducting their expenses upon
that wool in Flanders until the wool was sold, in their accounts before
Robert de Wodehous and his fellows, appointed to hear and determine their
accounts, and are ready to answer therefor, yet the said auditors unjustly
charge them in their accounts with the price of the said wool and beyond
this with 60s. a sack for the custom and subsidy and for the expenses
incurred by the king's ministers in taking the wool to the ports where it was
delivered to the merchants, and exact under that pretext 19,268l. 12s. 3d.
for the said price, custom, subsidy and expenses. |
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To the same. Like order in favour of the merchants of the societies of
the Bardi and Peruzzi, from whom 9,573l. 17s. 9d. are exacted for the price,
customs, subsidy and expenses incurred upon 1,198 sacks, 3 cloves, 6¾
pounds of the king's wool of divers counties. |
Oct. 19.
Westminster. |
To the tenants of the assize rent of Melbournport, co. Somerset. Order
to be attendant upon the executors of the will of William de Monte Acuto,
earl of Salisbury, and answerable to them for that rent until the heir of
Edmund earl of Kent come of age, as the king committed to the earl the
custody of the manor of Kyngesbury with the said rent, the hundred of
Horethorn and its other appurtenances in that county, which belonged to
Edmund earl of Kent, which were in the king's hand by reason of the
minority of the said heir, to hold until the heir should come of age, and
the earl of Salisbury is deceased. |
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Et erat patens. |
Oct. 16.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to deliver to R.
bishop of Durham three stamps for making sterlings of the king's money,
as his predecessors have done in times past. |
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To the abbot of Malmesbury. Order to pay the 100l. which are still in
arrear of the 500l. by which he made fine with the king for the pardon of
certain trespasses and excesses, to Robert de Mildenhale, keeper of the
king's jewels and other things in the Tower of London. By K. |
Oct. 12.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to account with
Marmaduke Darell and Thomas Salcok of Herlesey, whom the king
appointed justices to supervise the weights and measures in the North
Riding, co. York, that these should agree with the king's standards for the
fines and amercements made before them and to allow to them a fourth
part of what is levied by them of the said fines and amercements before
their proffer and of what remains to be levied, and to cause answer to be
made to the king for the remaining three parts in accordance with the
statute made at Westminster in the 14th year of the reign appointing one
measure and weight for all England and two lawful men in each county
to examine the weights and measures and punish guilty persons. |
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The following persons have a like writ, to wit:— |
Oct. 12.
Westminster. |
Robert de Watford, Thomas Powys and Henry Williot, appointed in
cos. Cambridge and Huntingdon. |
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Membrane 12. |
Oct. 15.
Westminster. |
To Walter de Mauny. Order to deliver to John Hasard, Walter Spilard,
John de Wadesheye, Hubert Salemerd, Thomas Daunheye, Lambert Malrechyne, Giles de Huy, James Marde of Huy, Alard Salmer and John Lucye,
merchants of Dynaunt, their goods and merchandise arrested at the suit of
the executors of the will of Master John Piers, and delivered to Walter by
a mainprise, as at the suit of John de Wyk and William de Cornewaille,
executors of the said will of Master John, who was taken on returning from
doing certain affairs of the king at the Roman court, by Edmund de Berkelyng and Simon his yeoman and others of their company, in a field between
Hassel and Herk in the lordship of the count of Loos, and imprisoned in
the castle of Moselyn in the lordship of the archbishop of Cologne until he
paid a fine to Edmund by 940 gold florins de l'écu, and who suffered other
damages to the sum of 1,000 marks, and the king's letters to the archbishop,
schoffen and community at Cologne, the bishop of Lyges and the said count
requesting justice were not observed, as is found by inquisition taken by the
sheriffs of London, and the sheriff of Southampton was ordered to take the
goods of the said archbishop and others up to the sum of 831l. 3s. 4d., and
he took divers goods of the said merchants found in the fair of St. Giles
near Winchester to the sum of 407l. 16d. as appears by his certificate sent
into chancery, which goods the executors asked to have delivered
to them; and the merchants pretending that they are of the house
in the city of London commonly called 'Gildehalla Tutonicorum'
and they showed a charter in chancery containing that the king
granted the said house to those merchants of Almain and that they
or their goods should not be arrested for any debt of which they
were not sureties or principals or for any trespass made by others, and
beseeching the king to cause the said goods to be restored to them,
especially as John Hamound, mayor of London, as alderman of the
merchants of Almain, having the said house, has certified the king in
chancery that the merchants of Dynaunt are of the said Gildehalla, and the
executors said in reply that Edmund is of the said house and guild and
has goods in common with the merchants of Dynaunt, by which those
merchants are not covered by the charter, and they offer to prove this; and
the merchants assert that Edmund is not of the said guild and has not
goods in common with them; and the king directed an inquisition to be
taken thereupon at St. Martin's le Grand, London, on Monday after
St. Denis last, by Master John de Thoresby and John de Sancto Paulo, and
the parties put themselves in that inquisition, and the executors did not
come on the day appointed by the jurors with their consent, before John
and Edmund de Grymesby, supplying the place of Master John de Thoresby
on the following Friday, to which the parties were adjourned, wherefore a
day was given to the merchants of Dynaunt to be before the king in
chancery on Saturday following, to do and receive what the king's court
should determine, and the parties appearing on that day the executors said
nothing why the said goods should not be dearrested and delivered to the
merchants. |
Oct. 24.
Westminster. |
William Rilyng of Northwell, vicar of St. Mary's church, Suthwell,
imprisoned at Nottingham for trespass of vert and venison in the forest of
Shirewod, has a writ to Ralph de Nevyll, keeper of the Forest beyond
Trent, or to him who supplies his place in the forest of Shirwod, to bail
him. |
Aug. 22.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to discharge
William de la Pole and Reginald de Conductu of 62,941l. 0s. 10¼d. charged
upon them, and of 10,000 sacks of wool which they acknowledged that
they had received, and of 27,342l. 16s. 1¼d. of the price of 2,500 sacks
of wool taken to parts beyond the sea contrary to the prohibition cancelling
all processes made against them in the matter, saving to the king his
actions against all who have so taken wool contrary to the prohibition, to
the detection and conviction of whom William and Reginald have promised
to apply all diligence, for which the treasurer and barons shall receive
their oath, and it is the king's intention that William and Reginald shall
render account for 11,414¼ sacks 4 cloves, 1 pound of wool and upon all
other receipts and payments made by them, as William and Reginald have
besought the king to provide a remedy, as it was agreed between the king
and certain merchants of England that they should buy 30,000 sacks of
wool for the king in England and that William and Reginald should
answer to the king for the gain thereof, and although the king first granted
a moiety of the gain to the merchants and then the other moiety, because
he took from them the wool bought by them and taken to Durdraght and
Middelburgh, he granted that the said wool should come to his hands and
that the merchants should not intermeddle further therewith or be bound
to render the account, yet the treasurer and barons have charged William
and Reginald with 62,941l. 0s. 10¼d. for the said gain, and although
William and Reginald are ready to account at the exchequer for 11,414¼
sacks, 4 cloves 1 pound of wool purveyed in England and received at
Durdraght and Middelburgh, the treasurer and barons charge them with
10,000 sacks, because they acknowledged that they had received them in
parts beyond the sea, beyond the 11,414¼ sacks 4 cloves 1 pound, and it
was found by inquisition taken before Robert Parvyng, late the treasurer,
and the barons of the exchequer at St. Martin's le Grand, London, that
2,500 sacks were taken to parts beyond the sea contrary to the prohibition,
but although it was not found that William and Reginald were guilty in
this yet the treasurer and barons have charged them with the price of the
said 2,500 sacks as if they were guilty, and by information taken by
certain prelates, earls and lieges it was found that the premises contain the
truth. By K. |
Oct. 22.
Westminster. |
To William de Shareshull. Order to be attendant upon holding pleas
together with William Scot and other lieges, appointed to hold pleas before
the king, for which the king has appointed him. By K. |
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Mandate to William Scot and his fellows to admit William de Shareshull. |
Oct. 25.
Westminster. |
To William de Wakefeld, keeper of the king's exchanges in the Tower of
London. Order to retain a fourth part of the profits arising from the
stamps of all gold and silver brought to those stamps by Matthew Canaceon
and Meinfrinus de Sant and their fellows, merchants of Ast, and to deliver
to those merchants 500l. in recompence for 500l. of which they discharged
the king, of the remaining three parts of the profits, in accordance with the
indenture made with them, and that done to cause all the remaining profits
to be kept safely until further order, as the said merchants undertook to
discharge the king of certain great sums in which he was bound to divers
men of the duchy of Aquitaine now living for their wages, by bill of the
constable of Bordeaux, and the king ordered John de Flete, keeper of the
said exchanges, to pay 500l. to the said merchants in the form aforesaid and
to keep the remaining profit under his seal and the seal of Matthew and
Meinfrinus until further order [as at page 319 above]. |
Oct. 20.
Westminster. |
To the justices of the Bench. Order to direct the clerks and all others
of the Bench to be attendant upon Matthew Canaceon, merchant of Ast, in
the payment and levying of the money arising from the seals of judicial
writs of that and the other Bench, so that writs at the king's suit there
may be delivered by the view and testimony of those who sue for him there,
and writs for men of the king's courts and poor men may be delivered
without delay, as for 10,000l. which Matthew undertook to pay for the king
to certain persons in the duchy of Aquitaine to whom the king was bound, the
king granted to him all the profits of the seals of all judicial writs of both
Benches for the term of ten years next following, to the value of 300l. yearly,
whereof he should pay yearly to the keeper of the hanaper of chancery 100l.
and should reserve the residue of the profits to himself, and that the king
would cause a seal in each Bench to be sealed with wax for the said writs. |
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The like to William Scot and his fellows, justices appointed to hold pleas
before the king, 'mutatis mutandis.' |
Oct. 15.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Devon. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be
elected in place of John de Passelewe, who is insufficiently qualified. |
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Membrane 11. |
Oct. 20.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Oxford and Berks. Order to pay to Edith late the wife
of Richard Whytot, sometime butler of the king and his father, 3l. for
Michaelmas term last, in accordance with the king's grant to her of 6l., to
be received yearly for life of the issues of those counties, made on 20
February in the 12th year of the reign. |
Oct. 24.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Somerset. Order to cause a coroner for that county to
be elected in place of Roger de Stokelynche, who is so sick and weak that
he cannot execute the duties of his office. |
Oct. 26.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of York. Order to cause two verderers for the forest of
Pykeryng of Henry earl of Lancaster to be elected in place of Alexander de
Bergh and John de Kilwardby, deceased. |
Oct. 13.
Westminster. |
To the abbot of St. Peter's, Gloucester. Order to deliver to Thomas
de la Mare of Ryndecombe and John de Weston, appointed to collect the
tenth and fifteenth granted in the last parliament in co. Gloucester, a strong
and suitable house in that monastery where they may cause the money to
be kept safely and to permit them to have free access thereto, so that they
may be able to answer to the king for the money, as it was ordained in the
said parliament that the money of the said tenth and fifteenth should be
placed in some cathedral church or monastery in each county where it could
be kept for the expenses of the king's wars, wherefore the king ordered
John and John to cause all the money to be kept in that abbey. [Fœdera.] |
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The like to the following, to wit:— |
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The prior of Ely and seven other priors. |
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The abbot of St. James, Northampton and thirteen other abbots. |
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The dean and chapter of the cathedral church of Exeter and the deans
and chapters of six other cathedral churches. [Ibid.] |
Oct. 18.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to supersede the
demand made on the goods and chattels which belonged to John de Denton,
for 40l. and to discharge Elizabeth late his wife thereof, delivering the
said goods and chattels to her or to her attorney without delay, as for John's
good service the king has pardoned Elizabeth 40l. which remain to be paid,
it is said, of those 200l. by which John made fine with the king before
William de Kildesby and William de Edyngton for having pardon for divers
trespasses committed by him, as may appear by a roll of such fines sent to
the exchequer, and the king wishes the goods and chattels to be delivered to
Elizabeth in aid of her maintenance and that of her children. |
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By K. and C. |
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The like to the sheriff of Northumberland. By K. and C. |
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The like to the mayor and bailiffs of Newcastle upon Tyne. |
Oct. 26.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of York. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be
elected in place of Alexander de Bergh, deceased. |
Oct. 10.
Waltham. |
To the sheriffs of London. Order to deliver to Nicholas Bartholomei
and Martin de Pistoyre and their fellows, merchants of Lucca and merchants
of Bosdrag, those four knobs (botenaria) of gold and enamel, three gilt knobs
with red stones, seven florins de l'écu and a piece of silver which John de
Eggesworth acknowledged before William Scot and his fellows, justices
appointed for gaol delivery at Neugate, that he had stolen from those
merchants, and which are forfeited to the king for that cause, in accordance
with the king's grant to those merchants, of his favour, if they do not
pertain to the king for any other cause. By K. |
Oct. 16.
Westminster. |
To Thomas de Aspale, escheator in co. Southampton. Order not to intermeddle further with the temporalities of the priory of St. Swithun's, Winchester, restoring the issues thereof to the prior, although the king ordered
him to take those temporalities into the king's hand and keep them safely
until further order. By K. |
Oct. 21.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to discharge the
abbot of Malmesbury of 500l. towards the king by which he made fine for
the pardon of certain trespasses and which the king ordered him to pay to
the keepers of the jewels and other things in the Tower of London, as the
abbot has paid 400l. to John de Flete, deceased, the late keeper, and the
remaining 100l. to Robert de Mildenhale, the present keeper, as appears by
the letters of acquittance of John and Robert and by the enrolment on the
chancery rolls. |
Oct. 20.
Waltham. |
To Saier Lorymer, appointed to inspect ships and boats in co. Kent,
Essex and Suffolk and to arrest as forfeit to the king customable things
found not coketted or customed therein. Order to cause all ships arrested
by him and brought back to those counties after the breaking of that arrest
to be arrested and kept safely until further order, as the king is informed
that he arrested certain ships laden with wool, hides and wool-fells not
coketted or customed, and the masters and mariners of those ships, the
arrest being broken, departed with the wool, etc. to Normandy, Picardy,
and elsewhere, and the wool etc. being sold there, and the money from
the sale and other merchandise bought by them in those parts being placed
in the ships they brought them back to the counties. By C. |
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Oct. 12.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order not to intermeddle
further with the moieties of the manors of Wolloure, Hethpol, Hedreslowe,
Lowyk and Belford, co. Northumberland, which belonged to Nicholas de
Meynill, tenant in chief, and are in the king's hand by reason of the
minority of Elizabeth, Nicholas's daughter and heir, from 4 July last, and
not to distrain John de Fenwyk, Robert de Reynes and Aymer de Athelles
to render account for the issues of those moieties, as on the said day the
king committed to them the custody of the said moieties, to hold until the
heir should come of age or until further order, so that they should answer
for the issues thereof at the exchequer, and for certain causes the king has
reserved those moieties to his chamber, and wishes answer to be made
there for the said issues. The king has ordered John, Robert and Aymer
to answer for the said issues in the said chamber and not elsewhere, and to
obey all orders of the king under the seal called 'Griffon,' according to
the form thereof. |
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Mandate in pursuance to John, Robert and Aymer. |
Oct. 12.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Derby. Order to pay to Henry de Lancastr[ia], earl of
Derby, or to his attorney, 10l. for Michaelmas term last, in accordance with
the king's grant to him of 20l. to be received yearly by the hands of the
sheriff of that county. |
Oct. 6.
Waltham. |
To the collectors of the petty custom in the city of London. Order to
pay to Henry earl of Derby, or to his attorney, all the issues of that custom
up to 445 marks 9s. 7d. for Michaelmas term last, and if the money of those
issues does not reach that sum, to certify the king of what remains to be
paid, so that the king may cause the earl to be satisfied of the issues of the
great custom in the port of London, in accordance with the king's grant to
him, on 20 September in the 12th year of the reign. |
Oct. 10.
Westminster. |
To the collectors of customs in the port of Boston. Order to pay to
William de Melchebourn, the king's merchant, 10l. for Michaelmas term
last, in accordance with the king's grant to him for his good service and
his labours in redeeming the great crown, which he brought from Flanders,
of 20l. to be received yearly for life of the issues of those customs. |
Oct. 23.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to allow to Thomas
de Melchebourn and certain other merchants of England newly associated,
20s. on every sack, 300 wool-fells and ½-last of hides of their own taken out
of England in part allowance of the sums owed by the king to them and
others for wool taken at Durdraght, from Midsummer in the 17th year of the
reign until the same feast following, in the sums in which they are bound
to the king for the customs and subsidies of the realm, granted to them, in
accordance with the ordinance concerning allowances made in the parliament
held at Westminster, on the quinzaine of Easter in the 17th year of the
reign, and an indenture made between the king and Thomas and his said
fellows containing that if any of the merchants to whom the king is debtor
do not suffice to take any wool to parts beyond to obtain allowance in
accordance with the ordinance they may grant what is due to them to the
said associated merchants, to whom such allowance shall be made. |
Nov. 18.
Melford. |
To Thomas de Drayton. Order to deliver to Saier Lorymer, appointed
to inspect ships crossing from England and arrest the king's forfeitures
found therein, a roundlet of salmon, a pocket of wool and 120 wool
fells and 35s., which Saier arrested as forfeited to the king at Leistoft, in
a ship of Picardy called 'la Nowel,' because the wool and fells were not
coketted and customed, and which the king ordered Saier to have sold, and
he delivered them to Robert Ruisshale, constable of the town of Leistoft,
to be kept for the king's use; which wool etc. are detained by Robert from
Saier by Thomas's order, as Saier has certified in chancery. |
Nov. 9.
Melford. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to discharge
William de Kildesby, the king's clerk, of 514l. 10s., as he lately set out to
Britanny with a great number of armed men, archers and others, by the
king's order, and remained there for no small time, and he received 85¾
sacks of wool of the price of 514l. 10s. upon the wages of himself and the
said men from Edward de Cretyng and his fellows, then collectors and
receivers of wool in co. Suffolk, wherewith he is now charged at the
exchequer, as the king has learned, and he has besought the king to order
him to be discharged of the said price. |
Nov. 15.
Melford. |
Stephen le Hunte, imprisoned at Rokyngham for trespass of venison in
Rokyngham forest, has a writ to William de Clynton, earl of Huntyngdon,
keeper of the Forest this side Trent, or to him who supplies his place in the
forest of Rokyngham, to bail him. |
Dec. 2.
Hoxne. |
To the sheriff of Lancaster. Order to cause a coroner for that county to
be elected in place of Richard del Bruch, who has no lands in the county
to qualify him. |
Dec. 12.
Hoxne. |
To the sheriff of Bedford. Order to cause a coroner for that county to
be elected in place of John de la Legh, who is so weak and infirm that he
does not suffice to execute the duties of the office. |
Dec. 16.
Hoxne. |
To William de Wakefeld, keeper of the exchanges of London and
Canterbury. Order to pay to Simon de Berkyng of London, goldsmith,
changer of the king's money in the Tower of London, what is in arrear to
him of his customary wages from 10 July last, when the king granted that
office to him to hold during pleasure, as Roger Rykeman held it, and to
pay him those wages henceforth. |
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Membrane 9. |
Oct. 14.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of York. Order to pay to Margery late the wife of Duncan
de Frendraght, 24 marks 6s. 8d., for Easter term last, in accordance with
the king's grant to her of 49 marks to be received yearly of the issues of
that county, in recompence for the manor of Briggestok, co. Nottingham,
which she lately held at will, and which the king assigned to Queen Isabel. |
Oct. 8.
Westminster. |
To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides and wool-fells in the port
of Boston. Order to pay to Queen Isabel or to her attorney 250l. for
Michaelmas term last in accordance with the king's grant to her of the
following sums in the following ports, to wit: in the port of London 500l.,
in the port of Boston 500l., and in the port of Kyngeston upon Hull 500l.,
to be received yearly for life. |
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The like to the following, to wit:— |
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The collectors of customs in the port of London for 250l. |
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The collectors of custom in the port of Kyngeston upon Hull for 250l. |
