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Jan. 6.
The Tower. |
To John de Wyndesore, escheator in co. Leicester. Order to amove the
king's hand from a messuage at the hospital of Tilton and a carucate of land
in Neuton, and not to intermeddle further therewith, restoring the issues
thereof to the master and brethren of St. Lazarus of Jerusalem in England,
as the king ordered the escheator to certify him why he had taken their
lands at Burton, co. Leicester, into the king's hand, and the escheator
returned that he had done so because he had found by inquisition of office
that the master and brethren, who held the tenements of their feoffors,
were bound to find a chaplain continually resident there to celebrate
divine service for the king's ancestors and for all the faithful departed
and to find a smith to stay continually in a smithy there to shoe the horses
of those coming, at the cost of the master and brethren, who have withdrawn those alms for 50 years past, and afterwards the master and brethren
besought the king to order his hand to be amoved, as one William Burdet
long before the publication of the statute of mortmain, assigned to them
the said messuage and carucate, which are the tenements aforesaid, in
frank almoin, without any other charge, and the king ordered the escheator
to take an inquisition upon the matter, by which it is found that the said
messuage and land are the same as the said tenements and that William de
Burdet assigned them to the master and brethren as aforesaid. |
Jan. 24.
The Tower. |
To Richard earl of Arundel, admiral of the fleet from the mouth of the
Thames towards the West, or to him who supplies his place. Order to cause
three ships called 'la Cogge Johan,' 'la cogge Andreu' and 'la Seinte Maricogg'
of Southampton to be dearrested and to permit them to go with the wool,
hides and wool-fells therein to the staple in Flanders, after taking security
from the masters that the ships will be at Portesmuth on the quinzaine
of the Purification next, to set out thence in the king's service, as John de
Wesenham, the king's merchant, has besought him to order those ships to
be arrested by such security, as he and other merchants have laded them
with the said wool, etc. and they are arrested by the admiral for the king's
service. By C. |
Jan. 10.
The Tower. |
To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides and wool-fells in the port
of London. Order to retain all the money levied by them and to see that
all ships laded with wool, etc. during the present war are sufficiently
munitioned with armed men and archers and to pay to them reasonable
wages by indenture, superseding the payment of that money to John de
Wesenham, the king's merchant, and not permitting any ship so laden to
cross from that port unless they are munitioned as aforesaid, as the king
lately ordered them to pay 12d. for every sack of wool, on every 300
wool-fells and half-last of hides taken out of the realm, and 1d. on every
pound of other merchandise so taken to John for the wages of the men in
the ships staying at sea for the safe-conduct of the ships crossing from the
realm, and it has now been ordained by the king and his council that every
ship so laded shall be munitioned as aforesaid, and that the collectors shall
supervise this and pay the wages, and that the exaction of 1d. for every
pound of other merchandise shall cease. By K. |
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The like to the collectors of customs in the following ports, to wit:— |
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The collectors in the port of Bristol. |
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The collectors in the port of Southampton. |
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The collectors in the port of Great Yarmouth. |
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The collectors in the port of Lenn. |
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The collectors in the port of Boston. |
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The collectors in the port of Chichester. |
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The collectors in the port of Sandwich. |
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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 Ipswich. |
Jan. 22.
Westminster. |
To John de Swynnerton, escheator in co. Stafford. Order not to intermeddle further with the manor of Kyngesbromleye in that county, as the
king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that William Corbet,
knight, at his death, held no lands in his demesne as of fee in chief in that
county, but that he held the said manor for life of the demise of Roger
Corbet of Haddeleye, knight, his father, who survives, by the king's licence,
with remainder to Roger, and that the manor is held in chief by the service
of the tenth part of a knight's fee and by the service of rendering 4l. yearly
at the exchequer by the hands of the sheriff of that county. |
Jan. 8.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to cause a new chamber to be
made in Porcestre castle and the defects of the hall, chambers and kitchen
to be repaired against the king's arrival there, by the view and testimony
of John Haket, constable of the castle. By p.s. |
