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Aug. 3.
Barnet. |
To the warden of the Flete prison. Order to release Robert son of John
de Wynton, of London, from that prison without delay, as the king ordered
the keeper to certify him why Robert was so imprisoned, and the escheator
returned that Robert was committed to prison by the justices of the Bench
for 40l. in which he was bound to Robert de Holewell by letters obligatory,
according to the form of the law merchant, and now Robert de Holewell
has acknowledged himself, before the king in chancery, to have been
satisfied by Robert for that debt. |
Aug. 7.
Rising. |
To the mayor and sheriffs of London. Whereas Joan de Fulham, prioress
of St. Mary's, Clerkenwell, has complained before them in the hustings of
London of intrusion against William Pynnere and Margery his wife, Simon
William's son, Henry de Pirle, master of the hospital of St. James near
Westminster, and certain others, concerning her free tenement in the parish
of St. Sepulchre in the suburb of London, and a plea is pending thereupon
before the sheriffs in the said hustings, and because Henry has resigned all
his care of the said hospital and is admitted as a brother of the Hospital of
St. John of Jerusalem in England, as appears by letters testimonial of the
said Hospital shown in chancery: the king considering that the hospital of
St. James is in his hand by reason of the said resignation, orders the sheriffs
to proceed so circumspectly in that plea that the king or the hospital may
suffer no prejudice. |
Aug. 3.
Barnet. |
To the warden of the Marshalsea prison. Order to release Ralph Fraunceys
from that prison by a mainprise, as he has found before the king in chancery
William de Waltham, 'cordwaner'; Gregory de Rammeseye, Richard Brid,
John le Best, Robert le Roo, Thomas atte Crouche, Adam de Meneneye,
Geoffrey Gylmyn and Robert de Huttokeshathre of the city of London, his
mainpernors, who have undertaken to have him before the king on the
octaves of Michaelmas to answer for certain damages and excesses committed
by him, it is said, and further to do and receive what shall there be ordained. |
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By C. |
Aug. 4.
Westminster. |
To the mayor and bailiffs of Dover. Order to permit brother Ralph de
Insula to cross from that port with his horses, household and reasonable
expenses in gold, notwithstanding the proclamation which the king ordered
them to make that no man at arms, religious or pilgrim, should cross from
the realm to parts beyond without his special licence, because the prior of
St. Oswald's is impleaded in the Roman court upon things concerning the
rights of his church, as the king has learned, and is sending Ralph, his
fellow canon, to the said court for the defence of his right. |
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Membrane 20d. |
Aug. 18.
Westminster. |
To Bartholomew de Burgherssh, constable of Dover castle and warden of
the Cinque Ports, or to him who supplies his place in the port of Dover.
Order to permit brother Nicholas, abbot of Pippewell, who is about to set
out to the Roman court on certain affairs touching his house, by the king's
licence, to cross from that port with his horses and equipments and 20l.
for his expenses. By C. |
Aug. 16.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk. Order to deliver to the prior of
Mendham his priory and all its appurtenances by a security that he will
answer for the same on the quinzaine of Michaelmas next if they are
adjudged to pertain to the king, as on its being testified before the king that
the prior of Castelacre was not of the power of the king of France and that
his priory had not been taken into the king's hand with the possessions of
aliens in time of war, the king ordered the sheriff of that county to deliver
to the prior his priory and its possessions which had been taken into the
king's hand by Ralph de Welyngham, appointed to take into the king's
hand the possessions of alien religious and others in that county, and
afterwards the king ordered the sheriff to restore the priory of Mendham,
similarly taken, which is a cell of the priory of Castelacre. |
Aug. 22.
Hadleigh. |
Brother Thomas, prior of Bustlesham Mountagu, acknowledges for himself
and convent that they owe to Walter Wyvyll, treasurer of the cathedral
church of St. Mary, Salisbury, 1,000 marks; to be levied, in default of
payment, of their lands and chattels and ecclesiastical goods in co. Berks. |
Aug. 23.
Hadleigh. |
Bartholomew Deumars of Stanford acknowledges that he owes to Roger
de Langeport, clerk, 40 marks; to be levied, in default of payment, of his
lands and chattels in co. Essex. |
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Cancelled on payment. |
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Brother Nicholas, abbot of Pippewell, acknowledges for himself and
convent that they owe to Edmund de Grymesby, clerk, 30l.; to be levied,
in default of payment, of their lands and chattels and ecclesiastical goods
in co. Northampton. |
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Cancelled on payment. |
Aug. 20.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to supersede the exaction made
upon Roger Liswy, Thomas le Vavasour, John de Gymmynges, John de
Wyvyll, Robert de Wyvyll, John Moryn, John le Sumpter, Robert de Lisle,
William Passelewe, Thomas de Gedyton, John de Compton and Robert
Urry for fines and amercements made by them before Robert Parvyng and
his fellows and before the abbot of Hyde and his fellows and before William
Trussel and his fellows, justices appointed to hear and determine divers
trespasses and excesses in that county, until the quinzaine of Michaelmas
next, as the king has given them a respite until that feast. |
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By p.s. [16359.] |
Aug. 10.
Westminster. |
To Robert de Scardeburgh and his fellows, justices appointed to hold
pleas following the justiciary of Ireland. Order to cause proclamation to
be made in all the counties in Ireland where those pleas are held that all
who claim liberties in that land shall be before those justices on a certain
day fixed by them, to propound their claims if they see fit, and the justices
shall send their claims to the chancellor of that land by writs of quo
waranto, to be returned before them on a certain day, as the king is informed
that several men both of England and Ireland usurp the rights of the crown
in that land, claiming divers liberties in their lands there, both cognisance
of pleas of the crown and other pleas, returns of the king's writs and
summonses of the exchequer, Dublin, and other things. The king has
ordered the chancellor to cause those writs to be made and sealed and sent
to the said justices on the said day, and these being returned the justices
shall do what is right for the final discussion of those liberties and other
things which they shall find to have been usurped from the crown by
inquisitions taken before them. By K. and C. |
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Mandate in pursuance to the chancellor of Ireland. |
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To Ralph Dufford, justiciary of Ireland. Whereas the king is informed
that as many fees and wages are paid for keepers of castles and fortalices in
that land where the king has few or no lands pertaining to the same, as
used to be paid before the king and his progenitors granted those lands to
divers men both of England and Ireland, and as the fees and wages were
granted for the custody of the said lands, castles and fortalices, and it is
not reasonable that the king should be charged with the fees and wages
entire where others receive the profit of the lands: the king orders the
justiciary to associate with the chancellor, treasurer, justice and others of
the council in that land, and take diligent information upon the matter,
causing such fees and wages to be reduced according to their discretion, and
to inform the king in the chancery of England of what they have done. |
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To the treasurer of Ireland, or to him who supplies his place. Order to
cause two seals, one for judicial writs in the Common Bench, Dublin, and
the other for the Bench following the justiciary of Ireland, to be made and
delivered to Robert de Scardeburgh, to whom the king has committed the
custody of those seals together with the profit thereof, in the presence of
Ralph Dufford, justiciary of that land, and of the chancellor there, as the
king has learned that judicial writs of both Benches have been delivered in
times past by collusion between the clerks and attorneys of those places to
the king's sheriffs there, without being sealed with the king's seal used in
that land, to the great detriment of the chancellor there. |
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Mandate to the justices of the Bench, Dublin, to deliver all the judicial
writs of that Bench to Robert to be sealed with the said seal. |
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To Ralph Dufford, justiciary of Ireland. Order to cause divers commissions to be made in the chancery of Ireland under the seal used there to
sheriffs and other fit persons, as he shall see fit, after taking the advice of
the council there, so that answer for the issues of their offices shall be made
at the exchequer, Dublin, as the king is informed that the escheator and
collector of customs in that land cannot exercise their offices by reason of
the wars, although they receive great and divers fees from the king yearly for
the execution of those offices, and that the said offices might be executed for
a less sum and with greater utility by the sheriffs and others, and by the
advice of the council the king has ordained that each sheriff shall exercise
the office of escheator in his county and that collectors of customs shall be
appointed in those counties or in places where ships ply. |
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To Ralph de Scardeburgh and his fellows, justices appointed to hold pleas
following the justiciary of Ireland. Order to keep before them in that Bench
the ordinance made by the king with the advice of the council that the rolls
of records and processes of pleas in that Bench shall remain in possession
of the chief justice of that Bench for the future, as in times past they have
been in the custody of a clerk of that Bench by commission of the justices
who have nothing of the records and processes in their custody, and divers
evils may arise if the said rolls are not sufficiently cared for. |
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To Ralph Dufford, justiciary of Ireland. Order to ordain that no minister
taking fees of the king, setting out with the justiciary for the execution of
his office, shall take any wages for himself or others of his household but
of his due fee, though the king wishes the justiciary to keep men at arms
and others necessary for war at the king's wages, as he may see fit, as the
king is informed that several ministers in that land, taking fees from him,
have received wages for themselves and their households as often as they set
out with the justiciary, as if they received no fees from the king. |
Sept. 1.
Westminster. |
To Giles Buccanigre, brother of the duke of Genoa and admiral of the
king of Castile. Henry de Lancastr[ia], earl of Derby, returning from
Spain has told the king how Giles received the earl and other lieges in their
galleys and offered themselves with their galleys for the king's service,
which offer the king gladly accepts and sends Nicholinus de Flisco to speak
with them upon the matter. |
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To Simon Buccanigre, duke of Genoa and defender of the people. The
king sends to him Nicholinus de Flisco, called cardinal of Genoa, to answer
him for the damage done by certain of the king's subjects in taking six
Genoese galleys and the things therein, said to have been committed on the
coast of Britanny. |
Sept. 1.
Marwell. |
To the sheriffs of London. Order to release Master Robert de Suthampton from Neugate gaol by a mainprise, as he is detained for certain
processes and other things prejudicial to the king, contrary to proclamations, and he has found certain mainpernors for the king in chancery who
have undertaken to have him before the justices of the Bench on the octaves
of Michaelmas next to answer the king in the premises and to do and
receive what the king's court shall determine. By C. |
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To the same. Like order for the quinzaine of Michaelmas. By C. |
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Memorandum that John archbishop of Canterbury mainperned before the
king and his council to have the said Robert before the said justices on that
day, and at the said quinzaine by another writ, as Master John de Langetoft and John de Bray have announced to Robert de Sadyngton, the chancellor, in the house of the bishop of Coventry and Lichfield where he is
staying, on 30 August in the present year. |
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Membrane 19d. |
Sept. 6.
Marwell. |
To the mayor and bailiffs of Dover. Order to permit William Trussel
and William Stury, whom the king is sending as envoys to Spain, to cross
from that port with their households, horses, equipments and other things. |
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By K. |
Aug. 12.
Westminster. |
To John Mauduyt, escheator in co. Wilts. Simon, bishop of Ely, and
William de Langele, parson of Ryngwode church, have besought the king
to order the manor of Norton Skydemor with lands in Trowe, Billegh and
Emwell in that county to be restored to them, as Roger Bavent, knight,
lately grants the said manor and lands by his charter to them to hold for
the life of Hawisia, Roger's wife, and they were seised thereof by virtue
of that grant until they were amoved therefrom by Roger and William de
Kelleseye, clerk, William seising that manor into the king's hand by virtue
of his commission: the king therefore orders the escheator to take an
inquisition upon the matter and to send it to chancery without delay. |
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By K. |
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Enrolment of indenture made between the king and Percival de Porche,
of Luk, master and worker of the king's money, testifying that by advice
of the council the king has appointed Percival master and worker of that
money, to wit of three kinds, one current for 6s. 8d. called the gold noble,
and there shall be 39½ pieces in the pound weight of the Tower of London;
a second piece of half the weight, current for 40d., 79 pieces in the pound;
and a third piece of a quarter of the weight, current for 20d., 158 pieces in
the pound, each pound of the said money being worth 13l. 3s. 4d. of
sterlings; of which money the king will have profit of 5s. for his
seignorage on the pound and the master for his work shall take of each
pound 3s. 4d. for his work, coinage, damage of gold, cutting the irons and
diminution of weight, and for his expenses and all other costs saving the
wages of the wardens, and the merchants shall have the remaining 12l. 15s.
for each pound of gold; and the master shall have 1/8 carat for remedy of
each pound of gold, to wit that if the money be found 1/8 carat less than
fine and no more, the king's wardens ought to deliver them as good
without having them refounded; the master has also undertaken to make
sterlings of silver of the alloy of the old sterlings, and they shall be of the
weight of 22s. 2d. for each pound, of the said weight, and the king shall
have 6d. as seignorage on each pound, the master shall have for all other
costs 8d. on each pound, and the merchants the remaining 21s., and the
master shall have 2d. a pound for remedy for his work, for loss of weight,
cutting the irons and for weight and 2d. for alloy, in the form aforesaid,
and this remedy is not ordained to make the money more feeble but that
the master may make it loyally, and in case he make it more feeble by
simplicity, without malice, he shall have this remedy. The king will
appoint wardens in every place where the money is made, who shall survey
the money that it be of the alloy and weight undertaken by the master,
so that as soon as the money is coined the wardens and the master should
receive it from the moneyers, put it in a chest under two keys, one
to be with the wardens and the other with the master, and before the
money is delivered to the merchants the wardens shall assay it at the
master's request, and if it be not good they shall hand it back to him to be
refounded at his cost, and when the money has been proved good the
wardens and master shall take 2s. of each 100 pounds of silver and one
piece of every five pounds of gold and put them in a box under two keys
and two seals, the keys being with the king's deputies and the master
respectively, and the box shall be kept in the chest and opened every three
months, once before the council or their deputy and before the wardens and
master, and the money shall be assayed before them and if it be found
good the master shall be bound to account and pay to the king the said
profit, and then he shall have the king's letters patent of acquittance
under the great seal for all things touching the money; and the irons and
stamps ought to be kept in the said chest, and the master shall not be
answerable for any money found in the realm except the assay of money
found in that box, and so often as the wardens shall be required by the
master to deliver the gold and silver they shall be bound to do so for
the ease and profit of merchants so that they be more ready to bring them
to the said money, and the king will cause proclamation to be made that
no one shall take out of the realm any money but the new made by the
said master upon pain of losing all the gold and silver and his person at the
king's will, except by the king's special permission, and that no one shall
receive or pay gold or silver of any other stamp, and that good silver money
now current shall remain so and that no one shall refuse the king's
money of gold for a sum passing 20s. and that no one shall be compelled
to receive less than 20s., and a third part of forfeited money shall go to the
informers and the rest to the king. The king confirms the ancient charters
and liberties granted to the master and his fellows, moneyers, and the
agreements shall be kept for three years. Nicholas Berthelmeu, merchant
of Luk, has undertaken that Percival will behave loyally and keep his
part of the agreements upon pain of 2,000l. Dated at Westminster on
9 July. French. |
Sept. 12.
Westminster. |
To the justices of the Bench. Joan late the wife of Ralph Basset of
Drayton, has besought the king to provide a remedy, by her petition before
him and his council in the last parliament at Westminster, as she seeks in
the king's court against Alice, late the wife of Henry de Beaumond, a third
part of the manor of Loghteburgh with appurtenances, as her dower from
Ralph, and Alice pleading in that court alleged that the king when duke
of Aquitaine and earl of Chester, Ponthieu and Monstreuil granted to her
and Henry the said manor, whereof the tenements placed in view are parcel,
which escheated to the king by the forfeiture of Hugh le Despenser, earl of
Winchester, who held it of the king at his death, with reversion to the king
in default of heirs of their bodies, and after the king undertook the
government of the realm, at the request of Queen Isabel and with the
consent of parliament, he granted the manor to Henry and Alice, for
Henry's good service to the late king, to hold with all appurtenances for
themselves and the heirs of their bodies, with reversion to the king in
default of such heirs, and Alice says that she holds the said tenements as
parcel of that manor, and seeks aid of the king, wherefore the justices have
hitherto delayed to proceed in that plea: the king therefore orders them to
proceed further in that plea and cause what is lawful to be done upon the
final discussion of that affair notwithstanding the said allegation. |
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By pet. of parliament. |
Oct. 14.
Westminster. |
James, abbot of Clyve, acknowledges for himself and convent that they
owe to Nicholas Sperlyng, of London, 60l.; to be levied, in default of
payment, of their lands and chattels and ecclesiastical goods in co.
Somerset. |
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Cancelled on payment. |
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Walter de Hopton, knight, puts in his place John de Pusselowe to
prosecute the execution of a recognisance for 100l. made to him in chancery
by Thomas bishop of Hereford, and Alan de Cherleton, his brother. |
Sept. 13.
Hereford. |
To the bailiffs of Dertemuth. Order to deliver to William Trussel and
William Stury, whom the king is sending as envoys to Spain, ships
sufficient for the passage of themselves, their men, horses, equipments and
other things, for their own money, notwithstanding any order to the
contrary. By K. |
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The like to the following, to wit:— |
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The mayor and bailiffs of Southampton. |
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The bailiffs of Plummuth. |
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Membrane 18d. |
Aug. 10.
Rising. |
To the sheriff of Cornwall. Order to attach Thomas Carewer and John
his brother so that he have them before the king and his council at London
on the octaves of the Nativity of the Virgin next to answer for their trespasses and contempt and further to do and receive what shall there be
ordained and to arrest Thomas's ship with all the goods and things found
therein and keep them safely until further order, as Alexander de Westwode,
deputy of Walter de Weston, keeper of the king's victuals ordained for
the duchy of Aquitaine, has informed the king that whereas Alexander
placed 587 quarters of oats of the king's victuals in that ship, arrested to
take them to that duchy, with the consent of Thomas, in the port of Fowy,
Thomas and John afterwards ejected the oats from the ship and did their
will therewith, taking the ship whither they wished. By C. |
Aug. 10.
Rising. |
To the mayor and bailiffs of Carlisle. Order to go into the streets and
lanes of that city and cause all offal, trunks and wood found there to be
amoved without delay and to cause those streets and lanes to be kept clean
henceforth, as the king has learned that by such filth the air of the town is
so corrupted that men staying in and coming to the place suffer greatly and
that the passage of men about the streets is much impeded by such trunks
and wood. |
June 25.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to account with
William de Cusancia, late the treasurer, to whom certain wool arrested by
Richard Phille and others as forfeit to the king, on the River Thames near
Esttillebury, was delivered, for the sale of that wool and of the ships in
which the wool was found, and further to do what pertains to the final
issue of the account. By K. |
Aug. 14.
Ditton. |
John Marcand of Clisseby acknowledges that he owes to John de Kynewell, parson of Castre church, 40s.; to be levied, in default of payment, of
his lands and chattels in co. Lincoln. |
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William, abbot of King's Beaulieu, acknowledges for himself and convent
that they owe to Thomas Broun, citizen of London, 160l.; to be levied, in
default of payment, of their lands and chattels and ecclesiastical goods in
co. Southampton. |
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Cancelled on payment. |
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The same abbot acknowledges for himself and convent that they owe to
Nicholas Sperlyng of London 100l.; to be levied etc. in co. Southampton. |
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Cancelled on payment. |
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The same abbot acknowledges for himself and convent that they owe to
Thomas Sauvage, citizen of London, 100l.; to be levied etc. in co.
Southampton. |
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Cancelled on payment. |
Aug. 5.
Barnet. |
To the sheriff of Somerset. Order to supersede until the octaves of
Michaelmas next the exaction made on the prior of Bustlesham for the
ninth so that he may be able to sue for his discharge in the meantime, as
on 3 February in the 13th year of the reign the king granted that the prior
and canons of Bustlesham should be quit of all tenths, fifteenths or other
quotas granted to him, and that their lands, rents and goods should not be
taxed, and on learning afterwards that the prior was distrained for the
ninth granted in the 14th year of the reign contrary to that charter, the
king ordered the treasurer and barons of the exchequer to discharge the said
prior and the assessors and collectors of the ninth in that county of the said
ninth, and the prior is aggrieved by the sheriff to pay the ninth by reason of
exactions of the assessors thereof sent to the exchequer, contrary to the said
orders, as the king has learned from the prior's plaint. |
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The like to the sheriff of Wilts. |
Aug. 16.
Westminster. |
To Ferrand Zanccii de Vailhedolit, knight. John de Brocasiis has
informed the king of Ferrand's friendship, whom the king requests to use
his influence with his lord, the king of Castile, to further the treaty of
marriage between that king's eldest son and his own eldest daughter, for
which the latter is now sending envoys. [Fœdera.] |
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The like to the following, to wit:— |
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John Alfonso del Broket, |
knights. |
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John Martyn de Lene, |
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Master John Stephani, chancellor of Castile. |
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Alkar', master of the jennets of the king of Castile. [Ibid.] |
Aug. 18.
Westminster. |
Brother Roger, abbot of Buldewace, acknowledges for himself and
convent that they owe to John Piard, of Clone, 100l.; to be levied, in
default of payment, of their lands and chattels and ecclesiastical goods in
co. Salop.—The chancellor received the acknowledgment. |
Aug. 20.
Westminster. |
Roger Tromwyn acknowledges that he owes to William Trussel, of
Cublesdon, knight, 320l.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands
and chattels in co. Stafford. |
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Cancelled on payment. |
Aug. 27.
Marwell. |
Dinus Forcetti and Peter Bini, merchants of the society of the Bardi,
acknowledge for themselves and their fellows, merchants of that society,
that they owe to Richard earl of Arundel 324l.; to be levied etc. in the
city of London. |
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The same Dinus and Peter acknowledge for themselves and their said
fellows that they owe to Richard earl of Arundel 400 marks; to be levied
as aforesaid. |
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Cancelled on payment. |
Aug. 20.
Westminster. |
To the sheriffs of London. Whereas it is ordained by the king and
his council that the new gold money, one piece current for 6s. 8d., a
second for 40d., and a third for 20d., shall be current in England, and
that no one shall refuse it upon pain of forfeiture, and that all mayors,
sheriffs and other ministers shall have power to attach those who
do the contrary and punish them, and it is also ordained that the first gold
money shall not have currency henceforth, whereof a piece was ordained
for 6s., another for 3s. and a third for 18d. owing to the great faults found
therein before the king and his council, and shall not be received as payment except by the will of the receivers: the king orders the sheriffs to
cause all these things to be proclaimed. French. By K. and C. |
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[Fœdera.] |
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The like to the following, to wit:— |
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The prince of Wales and earl of Chester. |
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The bishop of Durham. |
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The justiciary of Ireland, or him who supplies his place. |
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The warden of the Cinque Ports. |
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The warden and sheriff of Berwick. French. [Ibid.] |
Sept. 2.
Marwell. |
John de Wroxhale, knight, acknowledges that he owes to Reginald de
Cobham, knight, 120l.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands
and chattels in co. Dorset. |
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Enrolment of grant by John Vincent of Waltham Holy Cross to Sir
Thomas de Hatfeld, canon of St. Paul's church, London, of all his lands
in the town of Retherhethe both without and within the breach (brecca),
which he had of the gift and enfeoffment of Margery and Lettice, daughters
and heirs of John de la Barre, citizen of London, and of others and also all
the arable land with ½ acre of meadow enclosed with a ditch in the parish
of St. Mary Magdalene, Bermoundeseye. Witnesses: Master John de
Thoresby, Sir John de Wyndesore, Sir John de Wynwyk, clerks; Alan
Gille, Henry de Bekwell, Geoffrey Pecok, Robert de Staunford. Dated at
Retherhethe on 30 August, 18 Edward III. |
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Memorandum that John came into chancery in the house of the Carmelite
friars, London, on 31 August, and acknowledged the preceding deed. |
Sept. 6.
Marwell. |
To J. bishop of Hereford. Request to grant to Henry de Tatton, the
king's clerk, such pension as he ought to render to one of the king's clerks
by reason of his new creation. By p.s. |
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Membrane 17d. |
Aug. 10.
Westminster. |
To Saier de Rocheford, Richard de Ros of Tid and Thomas de Multon of
Kirketon. Order to supersede the execution of their commission and to
send all the rolls, records and processes with the writs and all other things
touching the same to chancery, as in the 12th year of the reign the king
appointed them to keep his peace in the parts of Holand, co. Lincoln, and
to be justices to hear and determine felonies and trespasses there, but for
certain causes shown before him and his council he does not wish them to
execute that commission. By K. and C. |
Aug. 22.
Westminster. |
To the bishop of Ely, the prior of Bustelesham, John de Wyngefeld,
John de Mere and the other executors of the will of William de Monte
Acuto, earl of Salisbury. Request to be before the king's council at London
on Sunday before the Nativity of the Virgin next, which day the king has
given to Berard de Lebreto, to treat with him there concerning a debt of
2,400l. as good faith demands and to avoid the evils that may easily come
to the king's subjects for the non-payment of that debt, as Berard has
besought the king to assist him in the recovery of that debt, as the earl
was bound to him in that sum for his release from prison in parts beyond
and he promised to pay it to Berard at certain terms now elapsed, as he is
prepared to prove before the king, for which sum he has not yet obtained
any payment, as he says. By pet. of C. |
Aug. 25.
Westminster. |
To Richard Lovel. Order upon sight of these presents to send all the
rolls, records, processes and memoranda for the time when he was one of
the justices appointed to hear and determine divers trespasses and excesses
in co. Somerset, and for gaol delivery there, with the original writs and all
other things touching them to the king in chancery. By C. |
Sept. 3.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to permit William
Trussel the elder to have respite until Easter next for all the accounts and
debts which he owes at the exchequer, as he is about to set out to parts
beyond the sea in the king's service. By K. |
Sept. 8.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer, Dublin, and to the
chamberlains there. Order to allow 20l. to Robert de Scardeburgh and to
pay him in addition 20l. yearly for his fee, as the king has granted to him
the custody of the two seals ordained for sealing writs of both Benches in
Ireland, and the office of sealing writs therewith for one year, and it was
agreed by the king and council that Robert should be charged with 20l. for
the fees of those seals for the said year, and that he should be discharged
of rendering account for those fees and that the said 20l. should be allowed
to him in part payment of his fee for that year in the office of justice there. |
Sept. 4.
Marwell |
To William Scot, the chief justice. Order to have all the rolls, writs and
other memoranda touching the pleas held before the king at Ipswich on the
octaves of Michaelmas next and to be at that place to hold those pleas there. |
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By K. |
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Enrolment of indenture made between the king and Matthew Canaceon,
Henry Pikard, Walter Prest of Melton Moubray and Walter de Chiriton,
merchants, testifying that whereas at the king's request the said merchants
lent him 5,000l. to be paid to his treasurer in aid of the war the king has
assigned to them of a moiety on the tenth granted by the clergy and the
other moiety on the fifteenth granted by the laity whereof tallies are levied
at the receipt and delivered to them, for which loan the king has granted
that they may buy from divers merchants, to whom the king is bound for
their wool taken at Durdraght, for the king, the said obligations and debts
to the sum of 10,000l., of which Matthew and his fellows have undertaken
to discharge the king towards the said merchants, and to surrender at the
exchequer the bonds comprising that sum, to wit one moiety at Easter next
and the other moiety at Michaelmas following; and with the assent of
Thomas de Melchebourn and his fellows, merchants of England, to whom
the king has granted the customs and subsidies of wool, hides and other
merchandise for a certain time, the king has granted 2 marks on every
sack of wool passing out of England from the ports of Bristol, London,
Kyngeston upon Hull and Boston, to be received by the hands of Thomas
and his fellows, or their deputy or the customers in the said ports, until
Matthew and his fellows are fully paid for the 10,000l., and the king grants
that Thomas and his fellows shall have allowance for that sum in the ferm
for the customs and subsidies of ½ mark the sack up to the said 10,000l.
Dated at Westminster on 6 September. French. |
Sept. 15.
Waltham. |
Dinus Forcetti, Peter Bini and Chonet Robert acknowledge for themselves
and their fellows, merchants of the society of the Bardi, that they owe to
Richard, earl of Arundel, 396 marks; to be levied, in default of payment,
of their lands and chattels in the city of London. |
Sept. 6.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Essex. Order to attach John de Britewell, of Maldon,
so that he have him before the king and his council on Monday before St.
Matthew next, to answer the king and Richard de Brustwyk, and further
to do and receive what should then be ordained, and in the mean time to
dearrest 28 tuns of flour and deliver them to Richard to be taken to
Berwick upon Tweed, as Peter Gretheved, chamberlain of Berwick upon
Tweed, was lately charged by the king and council to take that flour,
bought and purveyed in that county and other parts, to the said town for
the munition thereof, and although Richard, whom Peter deputed to lade
that flour and take it to the said town, freighted a ship at Maldon for that
purpose and wished to place the flour therein, yet John attacked him at
Maldon by armed force, arrested the flour and prevented Richard from
taking it thence, as the king has learned. |
Sept. 12.
Westminster. |
To John de Warenna, earl of Surrey. Notification that the priory of
Lewes, founded by his progenitors and amply endowed, has diminished in
its possessions by the negligence of the alien priors in past times, who
have transmitted a great part of the money which they could collect from
it to parts beyond the sea, and the priory being now void the abbot of
Cluny proposes to present certain alien persons, suspect to the king and
diffamed for dilapidation in other places where they have presided, to the
government of the priory, contrary to the form of the ordinance made
between the earl's progenitors and the abbot; the king therefore orders the
earl not to present any person suspect to the king or the realm or otherwise
insufficient, contrary to the said ordinance, but if such persons are presented
to him he shall make such provision that no undue prejudice is done to
him or the king or the said priory, as by reason of the earl's right of
patronage it is in his interest that the priory should be preserved from
dilapidation and depression. |
Sept. 22.
Waltham. |
John de Redyng, of Reynham, acknowledges that he owes to David de
Kyngeston, citizen of London, 6l. 10s.; to be levied, in default of payment,
of his lands and chattels in co. Kent. |
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Nicholas Parker acknowledges that he owes to Walter de Egebaston 20
marks; to be levied etc. in co. Surrey. |
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John de Codestone, Nicholas atte Welle, and Simon de Excestr[ia], of
Lymmynisfeld, acknowledge that they owe to John, son of John Frere, of
Strode, the elder, 80l.; to be levied etc. in co. Surrey. |
Aug. 30.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Somerset. Order to guard all persons indicted before
William de Thorp and his fellows, justices appointed to hear and determine divers trespasses and excesses in that county, so that he may have
them before the king three weeks from Michaelmas next or on another day
appointed by the king and his council to answer the king unless the king
appoints other justices for those trespasses in that county, in the meantime,
as the king ordered those justices to supersede the execution of their
commission, in accordance with an ordinance made in the last parliament
held at Westminster, and to send the processes held before them to
chancery without delay, so that the king should cause them to be continued and determined in accordance with the form of that ordinance. |
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The like to the following sheriffs, to wit:— |
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The sheriff of Suffolk, where Thomas de Shareshull and his fellows
are justices for the same day. |
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The sheriff of Lancaster, where Roger Hilary and his fellows are
justices for the quinzaine of Martinmas next. |
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Membrane 16d. |
Aug. 12.
Rising. |
To the mayor and bailiffs of Bristol. William Whit of Tynbegh,
mariner, has besought the king to provide a remedy, as he was lately
driven by a tempest with his ship to Dumbretayn in Scotland and there
detained in prison for a month by the king's enemies, and he has been
taken and imprisoned by the mayor and bailiffs and his goods seised into
the king's hand because it is pretended that he went to the said parts of his
free will, contrary to the king's prohibition: the king orders the mayor and
bailiffs to release William from prison and his goods and chattels, if he
shall find mainpernors who will undertake to have him before the king's
council at Westminster on the octaves of Michaelmas next to answer what
shall be laid against him and for the said goods and chattels if they are
adjudged to pertain to the king after first appraising the goods and
chattels, and in the meantime to take information upon the said affair and
certify the king thereof in chancery on the said octaves. |
Aug. 30.
Westminster. |
John de Detlyng son of William de Brampton acknowledges that he owes
to Isabel late the wife of Thomas Malemayns of Hoo 26l. 13s. 4d.; to be
levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Kent. |
Aug. 28.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk. Order to be before the king and
his council at London on the morrow of the Nativity of the Virgin next to
do what shall then be ordained by the king and council upon pain of
forfeiture. By K. |
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The like to the following, to wit:— |
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The sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk. |
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The sheriff of Essex and Hertford. |
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The sheriff of Kent. |
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The sheriff of Middlesex. |
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The sheriff of Buckingham. |
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The sheriff of Surrey and Sussex. |
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The sheriff of Southampton. |
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The sheriff of Wilts. |
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The sheriff of Oxford and Berks. |
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The sheriff of Northampton. |
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The sheriff of Rutland. |
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The sheriff of Cambridge and Huntingdon. |
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The like to the following to come to the council at London on Monday
after the Nativity of the Virgin next, to wit:— |
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The sheriff of Lincoln. |
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The sheriff of Leicester and Warwick. |
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The sheriff of Gloucester. |
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The sheriff of Hereford. |
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The sheriff of Somerset and Dorset. |
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The sheriff of Devon. |
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The sheriff of Cornwall. |
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The sheriff of Salop and Stafford. |
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Memorandum that Richard Damory, knight, and John Elys of Thame
came into chancery on 10 August and mainperned to have John de Uppeheye
before the justices of the Bench to account with Elizabeth late the wife of
Ralph de Gorges for 80l. whereof John was convicted before William de
Shareshull and his fellows, justices of assize in co. Devon, by jury thereon
when he is delivered for felonies and other misdeeds whereof he is indicted
in co. Somerset, and to do and receive what the king's court shall determine. |
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Memorandum that the tenor of the preceding memorandum is sent in a
writ directed to the sheriff of Somerset. |
Aug. 26.
Westminster. |
To the burgomasters, échevins and consuls of Brugges, the échevins,
consuls and captains of Ghent and the advocate and échevins of Ipre in
Flanders. Request to restore to John de Asselyn, Hugh Doumfowe, John
Grouk, Richard de Orbeton, Richard de Chiriton, Robert de Shepeye,
Stephen de Dadyngton and John de Godeston, merchants of the realm,
50 sarplars and a pocket of wool if the merchants can prove them to be
theirs, after first satisfying the debt due to the fishermen of Blankebergh
and Oestene for their expenses and labours, as the king has received the
plaint of those merchants containing that whereas in the month of July
last they placed the said wool in a ship of Flanders, whereof John Penybrod
was master, to be taken to the staple in Flanders, and Copinus Tylere and
other malefactors attacked that ship when crossing to Flanders, killing the
mariners and other men found therein, and wished to take it to Scotland,
and certain fishermen of Blankebergh and Oestene in Flanders, considering
that the ship was unjustly taken, carried it with the wool and goods, snatched
from the hands of the said enemies, to the town of Blankebergh, and
although the merchants have often sued for having the said wool according
to the promises granted to the merchants of the realm going to the staple,
the burgomasters and others have not hitherto cared to restore the wool to
them, whereupon they have besought the king to provide a remedy. |
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Et erat patens. By C. |
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Enrolment of release by Richard Vincent, rector of St. Benet's church,
Shorhog, London, to Sir Thomas de Hatfeld, canon of St. Paul's, London,
of all his right and claim in all his lands, meadows and pastures which he
held of the permission or enfeoffment of Sir John his brother in the town
of Rethurhethe, and in all the arable land and ½ acre of meadow enclosed
with a ditch, in the parish of St. Mary Madalene, Bermundeseye, co. Surrey,
both within the breach (brekka) of Rethurhethe and without. Witnesses:
Master John de Thoresby, Sir John de Wyndesore, Sir John de Wynewyk,
Master William de Preston, clerks; Alan Gille, Henry de Bekwelle, Geoffrey
Pecok, Robert de Staunford. Dated at Rethurhethe on 1 September,
18 Edward III. |
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Memorandum that Richard came into chancery in the house of the Carmelite friars, London, on 1 September, and acknowledged the preceding
deed. |
