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Nov. 4.
Melford. |
To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides and wool-fells in the port
of London. Order not to permit any wool, fells or hides to be taken out of
that port before security has been found by the masters of the ships in
which they are laded in accordance with the agreement made by the king
and his council in the parliament held at Westminster in the 17th year
of the reign, and if they find any masters doing the contrary they shall
arrest them with their ships and the goods and merchandise therein, and
detain them until further orders, certifying the king in chancery from time
to time of the names of the masters and ships and the quantity and value
of the goods so arrested, as it was agreed in the said parliament that masters
of such ships should find security that they would take the wool and ships
to the port nearest the place where the staple is held and would not unlade
wool or other customable merchandise before the mayor of the staple had
supervised the indenture and coket, so that any wool etc. found not coketted
should remain forfeited to the king with the ships in which it was laded, and
now the king has learned that several merchants and others, because they
were impeded from selling their wool to any except the men of Bruges,
Ipre and Ghent, when it was brought to the staple, have taken their wool,
hides and fells out of the realm to other parts beyond and not to the
staple, without finding security, defrauding the king of the customs and
subsidies due thereon, and it is agreed in a treaty between the king and the
captains, advocates, échevins and others of the community of Flanders that
all merchants and others coming with wool, hides and fells to the staple
shall there sell them henceforth to whomsoever they wish, and carry them
thence by land and water as they see fit, as Thomas de Melchebourn, mayor
of the said staple, has testified before the king, so that all wool, hides and
fells taken out of the realm shall first be taken to the staple or to the port
nearest thereto. By K. and C. |
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The like to the collectors in the following ports, to wit:— |
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The collectors in the port of Boston. |
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The collectors in the port of Lenn. |
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The collectors in the port of Kyngeston upon Hull. |
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The collectors in the port of Newcastle upon Tyne. |
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The collectors in the port of Bristoll. |
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The collectors in the port of Southampton. |
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The collectors in the port of Great Yarmouth. |
Nov. 15.
Melford. |
To the sheriff of Gloucester. Order to pay to Hugh de Audele, earl of
Gloucester, 10l. for Michaelmas term last in accordance with the king's
grant to him of 20l. to be received yearly of the issues of that county. |
Nov. 20.
Melford. |
To the taxers and collectors in co. Buckingham of the tenth and fifteenth
granted in the last parliament. Order to supersede the levying of the tenth
and fifteenth of the king's own goods in the manors of Cippenham, Dachet,
Rudyng, Ditton, Stoke Pugeis, Foulemer, Cheshamboys, Wendoure, Weston
Turvill, Aston Bernard, Ilemer, Brehull, Bychendon, Adynton, Litlecote
and Swanbourne which belonged to John de Molyns, and are now in the
king's hand for certain causes. Proviso that as much shall be levied of the
men of those manors as was levied of them at another time, when they were
in John's hands, and answer made therefore to the king by the taxers and
collectors. |
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The like to the following to supersede levying the tenth and fifteenth in
the following manors reserved to the king's chamber, to wit:— |
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The taxers and collectors in co. Northampton for the manors of Guldenmorton, Plumpton and Estneston. |
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The taxers and collectors in co. Wilts for the manor of Lee with its
members of Derneford, Boxe and Gore. |
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The taxers and collectors of the tenth and fifteenth in co. Surrey for
the manor of Henle near Guldeford. |
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The taxers and collectors in co. Oxford for the manor of Henle upon
Thames and Fylettes near Henle. |
Nov. 20.
Melford. |
To the taxers and collectors in co. Berks of the tenth and fifteenth
granted in the last parliament. Order to supersede the levying of the
tenth and fifteenth of the king's own goods in the king's manor of
Yeshampstede with like proviso. By K. |
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The like to the taxers and collectors of the tenth and fifteenth in co.
Hertford for the king's manor of Chilternelanegele. |
Dec. 16.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Bedford and Buckingham. Order to purvey hay, oats,
litter and other necessaries for the maintenance of the king's stud and
horses in that bailiwick for the present winter season, and deliver them to
William de Fremelesworth, keeper of the said horses and stud, by indenture,
and to pay to the keepers of the horses and stud their customary wages for
the time that they are in arrear and henceforth, as the king is informed
that no such provision has been made for the said season. |
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By C. and the testimony of Nicholas de Bokelond. |
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The like to the same, 'mutatis mutandis,' to make provision for the king's
foals and deliver it to William le Ferour. |
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By C. and the testimony of the same Nicholas. |
Dec. 14.
Hoxne. |
To the sheriffs of London. Order to cause 15 tuns of woad of the goods
of Nicholas Camberleyn and John Moners, merchants of Amiens of the realm
of France, to be delivered to them if they find security to answer for the
same or the price thereof on the octaves of Hilary next if it is adjudged
that the woad was justly and reasonably arrested, as the king granted to
the merchants of Amiens on 18 October last that their goods should not be
arrested for any arrest granted by the king upon the goods of foreign
merchants, so long as the truce should endure between the king and his
adversary of France, unless they are offenders, mainpernors or pledges,
and afterwards because the said 15 tuns were arrested by the sheriffs at
the king's order to arrest all the goods of men and merchants of the realm
of France, at the suit of William Scarlet and Stephen Pole of Cornewaill,
by process made in chancery the king gave a day to Nicholas and John
and to William and Stephen to be before him in chancery on the said
octaves to do and receive what the king's court should determine, and
Nicholas and John have besought the king to order the said 15 tuns to be
delivered to them by security, so that they may not deteriorate further. |
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By C. |
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Membrane 8. |
Oct. 20.
Westminster. |
To William de Ravendale, keeper of the hanaper of chancery. Order to
pay to Robert de Burghcher, the chancellor, 50l. for Michaelmas term last,
in accordance with the king's grant to him on 20 December in the 14th
year of the reign of 100l. to be received yearly for life of the issues of the
hanaper in recompence for 100l. of land which Hugh Daudele, earl of
Gloucester, granted to Robert for his stay with him, to hold for life, and
which the earl resumed into his hand because Robert made stay with the
king. |
Nov. 3.
Westminster. |
To the abbot of St. Augustine's, Canterbury. Order to pay a ferm of
20l. and the arrears thereof to the abbot of Montmartret of Rome if that
ferm is due to him, as the said abbot has besought the king to order this
to be done, as the abbot of St. Augustine's holds the church of Littebourn
of him at ferm for rendering 20l. yearly, and he detains that ferm from the
time of the taking into the king's hand of the lands of the alien religious
by reason of the war between the king and his adversaries of France,
pretending that the said abbot is of the power of France, and the treasurer
and barons of the exchequer have certified in chancery at the king's order
that on inspection of the rolls and memoranda of the exchequer it is not
found that answer was made to Edward I or the late king at any time
when the lands of the alien religious were taken into the king's hand for
any ferm of any church by the hands of the abbot of St. Augustine's as due
to the abbot of Montmartret. |
Oct. 1.
Westminster. |
To the citizens of Chichester. Order to pay to Maud de Pirye, sometime the nurse of John de Eltham, the king's brother, and of Joan his
sister, what is in arrear to her of 30l. of the ferm of that city for Michaelmas
term last, in accordance with the king's grant to her of 30l. to be received
yearly for life of the 36l. yearly of the ferm of that city [as at page 185
above]. |
Oct. 28.
Melford. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to inspect the rolls
and memoranda of the exchequer and the king's order to them to discharge
Richard Scot of Newcastle upon Tyne of 100l. if they find that the king
assigned to Thomas de Ughtred the 200l. in which Richard was bound for
a fine made before William de Kildesby in the 15th year of the reign, before
the king pardoned him the said 100l., then to cause the said 200l. to be
levied of Richard's lands and chattels and delivered to Thomas in accordance
with the form of the assignment, notwithstanding the aforesaid pardon and
order, as the king lately assigned those 200l. to Thomas in part satisfaction
of the debts in which the king was bound to him, and caused tallies for that
assignment to be levied at the exchequer and delivered to him, and he
ordered Richard to pay the 200l. to Thomas, and although the king afterwards
pardoned Richard 100l. of that sum, not recollecting the assignment, and
ordered the treasurer and barons to discharge him thereof, yet he wishes
the assignment to remain in force, because the 200l. were due to Thomas
and not to the king. By p.s. [16442.] |
Nov. 8.
Melford. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to view the rolls
and memoranda, and if they find that the abbot of St. John's, Colchester,
paid the tenth granted in the convocation of the clergy of the province of
Canterbury at the church of St. Bride, London, on the morrow of
St. Jerome in the 12th year of the reign, and the tenth of the second year
of the triennial tenth granted by the clergy at the anticipated terms, and
that the collectors of those tenths charged themselves therewith in their
accounts, then to supersede the demand made upon the abbot for wool, as
the king ordered the bishops of London and Norwich to cause the said
tenths to be levied of the abbot and to supersede any exaction made upon
him for wool [in this Calendar 12 Edward III, pages 592, 608], and now
the king has learned from the abbot that although the collectors superseded
the exaction of wool from him and he paid the said tenths, as may appear
by the accounts of the collectors thereof, as is said, yet the treasurer and
barons distrain him to pay wool, whereupon he has besought the king to
provide a remedy. |
Nov. 8.
Melford. |
To the collectors in co. Kent of the tenth and fifteenth last granted by
the community of the realm. Order to supersede the demand made upon
John de Pulteneye, citizen of London, for that tenth and fifteenth, as the
late king on 10 April in the 19th year of his reign granted that John should
be quit of all tallages, aids, and contributions, saving to the king his
accustomed prises and dues, which grant the present king ratified on 12
May in the 14th year of his reign. |
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The like to the following, to wit:— |
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The collectors of the tenth and fifteenth in co. Middlesex. |
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The collectors of the tenth and fifteenth in co. Essex. |
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The collectors of the tenth and fifteenth in co. Hertford. |
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The collectors of the tenth and fifteenth in co. Suffolk. |
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The collectors of the tenth and fifteenth in co. Cambridge. |
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The collectors of the tenth and fifteenth in co. Leicester. |
Oct. 25.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause answer to
be made to the king without delay for the fine of 4,000 marks made by the
men of co. Northampton with the king before Robert Parvyng and his
fellows, justices lately appointed to hear and determine divers trespasses
and excesses in that county, if they find on examining the extracts of those
justices delivered at the exchequer that answer for that fine has not yet been
fully made, as the king has learned that a great part thereof is still in
arrear. By C. |
Dec. 12.
Hoxne. |
To Edward de Cretyng, late sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk. Order, upon
sight of these presents, to deliver to John Howard, the present sheriff in
that county, or to his attorneys, the goods and chattels which belonged to
John de Flete in those counties, taken into the king's hand by reason of
the debts which John at his death owed to him, to do therewith as has
been fully enjoined upon him. By p.s. [16500.] |
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To John Howard, sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk. Order to receive the
said goods and chattels from Edward de Cretyng, sell them at the highest
price possible, and answer to the king in his chamber for the money arising
from that sale. |
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Membrane 7. |
Nov. 6.
Melford. |
To Thomas de Aspale, escheator in co. Southampton. Order to cause
William brother of John de Putton, son and heir of William de Putton,
deceased, to have seisin of all the lands whereof William his father was
seised at his death in his demesne as of fee and of those which are in the
king's hand by reason of the minority of John and William, as John died
while a minor in the king's wardship and William is his brother and next
heir and of full age, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the
sheriff, and the king has taken William's homage for the lands which his
father held in chief and has rendered them to him. By p.s. [16455.] |
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The like to John de Roches, escheator in co. Wilts. By the same writ. |
