Close Rolls, Edward III: October 1352

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 9, 1349-1354. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1906.

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'Close Rolls, Edward III: October 1352', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 9, 1349-1354, (London, 1906) pp. 446-454. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw3/vol9/pp446-454 [accessed 18 April 2024]

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October 1352

Oct. 26.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer and to the chamberlains. Order to account with William de Blaunkeneye, the king's clerk, whom he lately sent to the parts of the islands of Gernereye, Jereseye, Seerk and Aurneye, for his receipts and wages and for the expenses of his passages to and from the said parts and for payments made by him for certain Lodemanni sent thence to England by the king's order and after allowing to him 6s. 8d. for every day spent in that service, in going to the said parts, staying and returning, and his reasonable expenses for his passages, to pay him what they find to be due to him by that account beyond what he has received.
Oct. 15.
Westminster.
To William de Catesby, keeper of the temporalities of the abbey of Leicester, which is in the king's hand. Order to deliver all the said temporalities together with the issues thereof to the abbot of that place, as because the abbot, who was enjoined not to depart from the king's court without licence, as he came before the king to answer certain things laid against him, departed from that court without such licence, the king ordered John de Wyndesore, escheator in the counties of Leicester and Warwick to take all the abbot's temporalities into the king's hand and deliver them to William, but the king of his favour has pardoned the abbot his said contempt and has restored the said temporalities and issues to him. By K.
Oct. 23.
Westminster.
To John de Swynnerton, escheator in Salop. Order to assign dower to Elizabeth late the wife of William son of William de la More, tenant in chief, of all the lands which belonged to her husband at his death, upon her taking oath that she will not marry without the king's licence.
Membrane 10.
Oct. 1.
Westminster.
To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides and wool-fells in the port of London. Order to pay to William de Bohun, earl of Northampton, or to his attorney 90l. 8s. 2¾d. for Michaelmas term last, in accordance with the king's grant to him of 180l. 16s. 5½d. to be received yearly of the issues of the customs in that port. [See at page 14 above.]
To the sheriffs of London. Order to pay to the said earl or to his attorney 100l. for Michaelmas term last, in accordance with the king's grant to him of 200l., to be received yearly of the ferm or issues of that city until certain lands, which others hold for life, revert to him.
The like to the sheriff of Essex to pay 50l. to the said earl or to his attorney for that term.
To the sheriff of Northampton. Order to pay to the said earl or to his attorney 10l. for Michaelmas term last, in accordance with the king's grant to him of 20l.; to be received yearly of the ferm or issues of that county.
To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides and wool-fells in the port of London. Order to pay to William de Bohun, earl of Northampton, or to his attorney 37l. 11s. for Michaelmas term last, as the king granted to him and to the heirs male of his body, among other things to maintain the honour of earl, the reversion of the castle, manor and town of Staunford and of the manor and town of Grantham, co. Lincoln, which John de Warenne, earl of Surrey, held for life, to the value of 225l. 6s. yearly in part satisfaction of 1,000l. of land and rent with which the king promised to provide William and his said heirs, and afterwards Joan late the wife of the said earl of Surrey recovered against William before the justices of the Bench, a third part of the manors of Staunford and Grantham as her dower, as appears by the tenor of the record and process of that recovery, which the king caused to come before him in chancery, and the said third part was delivered to her on Monday after the feast of the Invention of the Holy Cross in the 25th year of the reign, by pretext of that recovery, by the sheriff of Lincoln, as he has certified in chancery, and the king wishing to recompense William for what has been recovered out of his hands of the said manors, extended at 75l. 2s. yearly, has granted that he shall receive 75l. 2s. yearly from the said Monday of the issues of the customs in the port of London until the said third part reverts to him by Joan's death.
Oct. 21.
Westminster.
To Henry Pycard, the king's butler, or to him who supplies his place in the port of Bristol. Order to deliver to Joan de Carrue 6 tuns of wine for the present year, in accordance with the king's grant to her of 6 tuns of wine to be received yearly in that port for life, for paying to the butler what he will be bound to pay in the king's name to the merchants from whom the wine is taken.
Membrane 9.
Oct. 3.
Westminster.
To the prior of Theford. Order to pay to Petronilla de Pageham what is in arrear to her of 16 marks yearly from 27 April last, and to pay her that sum yearly henceforth, in accordance with the king's grant to her on that day for her good service to his daughter Elizabeth, countess of Ulster, of 10 marks to be received yearly for life in aid of her maintenance of the ferm of that priory, in the king's hand by reason of the war of France, so that if the priory should be placed out of the king's hands during her lifetime, she should receive the 10 marks yearly for life at the exchequer.
Oct. 3.
Westminster.
To the collectors of customs in the port of London. Order to pay to John de Bello Campo or to his attorney 90l. for Michaelmas term last, in accordance with the king's grant to him on 17 March in the 25th year of the reign of 280l. to be received yearly of the issues of the customs in the ports of London and Boston, to wit, 180l. in the one and 100l. in the other for life, the like to be collectors of customs in the port of Boston to pay 50l. to John for that term.
Oct. 1.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Nottingham and Derby. Order to pay to Nicholas de la Despense 10l. for Michaelmas term last, in accordance with the king's grant to him of 20l. to be received yearly for life of the issues of those counties, in recompence for 20l. of land yearly of the lands of William de Bredon in the county of Derby, granted to him by the late king, and restored to William with the assent of parliament.
Oct. 20.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Wilts. Order to pay to Elizabeth, late the wife of William de Sancto Omero 12l. 10s. for Michaelmas term last, in accordance with the king's grant to her and to William of 25l. to be received yearly for their lives, granted first at the exchequer, and afterwards of the issues of the said county on 15 December in the 24th year of the reign, because Elizabeth surrendered the previous letters patent to chancery to be cancelled.
Sept. 12.
Westminster.
To the collectors of the customs and subsidies in the port of Newcastle upon Tyne. Order to pay to Ralph de Nevill or to his attorney, 25l. for Michaelmas term next, as on 15 July last the king granted to him 50l. to be received yearly for the life of Richard de Denton of the issues of the customs and subsidies in that port until a certain rent of 51l. 7s. 0½d. of cornage in Cumberland, which Richard receives yearly for life by the hands of the sheriff of that county of the king's grant, shall revert to Ralph in accordance with the king's grant to him.
Oct. 12.
Westminster.
To the collectors of customs in the port of Kyngeston upon Hull. Order to pay to Robert Bertram 50 marks for Michaelmas term last as for his good service and because he freely delivered to the king the body of William de Douglas, taken by him in the battle at Durham, the king granted to him 200 marks to be received yearly, to wit 100 marks of the issues of the customs in that port and 100 marks of the issues of the customs in the port of Newcastle upon Tyne.
The like to the collectors of customs in the port of Newcastle upon Tyne to pay 50 marks to Robert.
Oct. 1.
Westminster.
To Richard de Thoresby, keeper of the hanaper of chancery. Order to pay to John de Tamworth, clerk of the crown of chancery, 10l. for Michaelmas term last, in accordance with the king's grant to him made with the assent of the council, of 20l. to be received yearly for life by the hands of the keeper of the hanaper.
Oct. 30.
Westminster.
To John de Coupeland, escheator in Northumberland. Order not to intermeddle further with the lands taken into the king's hand by the death of John de Lokre, restoring the issues thereof, as on 3 April last the king having taken the homage of Henry son and heir of Henry de Percy, tenant in chief, for all the lands which his father held in chief at his death, restored those lands to him and ordered them to be delivered to him, and it is found by inquisition taken by the escheator that John, who held divers lands of the said heir, died on 20 April following.
Oct. 30.
Westminster.
To John de Coggesale, escheator in the county of Hertford. Order to take the fealty of Mary late the wife of Ed[mund] de Pakenham, according to the form of a schedule enclosed, and not to intermeddle further with a moiety of the manor of Savecompe in that county, restoring the issues thereof to her, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that Edmund at his death held no lands in his demesne as of fee in chief in that bailiwick, but that he held the said moiety, which is held in chief, of Mary's right and inheritance.
Membrane 8.
Oct. 20.
Westminster.
To S. archbishop of Canterbury. Order to cause certain persons of the diocese of Canterbury to be appointed to collect and levy the biennial tenth granted by the clergy of the province of Canterbury in their convocation held in St. Paul's church, London, for the second year, in that diocese, certifying the treasurer and barons of the exchequer without delay of the names of those so deputed, as the said clergy granted that biennial tenth for the king's necessary expenses for the defence of the church and the realm, to wit, one simple and the other under certain conditions, to be paid at St. Andrew and Midsummer last for the first year and at the Purification and Midsummer next for the second year, and the conditions upon the grant for the second year sought by the clergy in the last parliament have now been completed and accepted by the clergy.
To the guardian of the spirituality of the vacant archbishopric of York. The like with respect to the tenth granted by William la Zouch, late archbishop of York and the other bishops and all the clergy of the province of York in their last convocation celebrated in St. Peter's church, York.
The like to all the bishops of England.
To the abbot of St. Albans. Order to cause the said tenth touching his exempted jurisdiction for the second year to be levied with all speed.
Oct. 26.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and chamberlains. Order to deliver to William Poterne, chaplain, all the vessels which are testified to be his, as the king ordered all the goods and chattels of Robert de Gyene of Bristol in Bristol to be arrested by John de Haddon and to be inventoried by John de Codyngton, the king's clerk, and subsequently the king caused the gold and silver vessels and other jewels of those goods to come to London to be delivered to the treasurer and chamberlains; and now it is testified before him under the common seal of Bristol by the oath of John Lespicer, late mayor of Bristol, and by the testimony of others examined before the king, that William, before his journey to the city of Rome, deposited in a chest lent to him by Robert in his house at Bristol 12 silver spoons, four pieces of silver and a piece of silver with a cover of the weight of 4l. 6s. 8d. a cup with a long silver gilt foot without a cover, a silver cup, plain without a cover, and a silver gilt cup with a cover of the weight of 63s. 4d., a 'mazer' bowl bound with silver gilt, price 6s. 8d. and a bowl formed of a griffin's egg, bound with silver gilt, price 26s. 8d. and a long foot of silver for a mazer, weight 14s., for the greater security of those vessels, which vessels remained in that chest in the said house until they were taken to London with Robert's other goods. By K. and C.
Oct. 13.
Windsor.
To William de Middelton, escheator in Norfolk and Suffolk. Order to cause William son of John de Molyns, the king's yeoman, and Margery his wife, daughter and heir of Edmund Bacoun, tenant in chief, to have seisin of all the lands which Margery de la Beche, late Edmund's wife, held in dower or for life of her inheritance and of the lands of which Edmund was seised at his death in his demesne as of fee, as Margery is of full age as is found by inspection of her body at Ditton, co. Buckingham, and the king has taken William's fealty for the lands which Margery de la Beche held as aforesaid on the day of the forfeiture of John de Dalton, formerly her husband, and for the lands which Edmund held as aforesaid, which are in the king's hand. By letter of the secret seal.
Oct. 26.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to account with John de Kyngeston, the king's clerk, receiver in the isle of Wight, for the sums received by him at the receipt of the exchequer, and to allow to him for the wages of John de Gatesden, keeper of the island, 4s. a day from 18 March last, when he went to the island by the king's order for its safe custody, until Michaelmas following, and 80 marks for his reward for the same time, and for two knights, seventeen yeomen and twenty archers on horse then staying in his company there and for ten men at arms and ten archers on foot retained in the munition of Caresburgh castle in that island, from 26 March last for the time that they are retained there, their customary wages of war, and further to do what is just as the nature of the account requires. By K. on the information of the treasurer.
Oct. 30.
Westminster.
To the same. Order to account with Richard Tempest, keeper of the town of Berwick upon Tweed, for the wages of twenty men at arms and twenty archers, retained by him for the safe custody of that town beyond the number of men contained in the indenture made between him and the king for that custody, from 16 June last until Michaelmas following, and to allow to him in that account the customary wages of war for the men at arms and 4d. a day each for five of the said archers and 3d. a day each for the remaining fifteen archers. By bill of the treasurer.
Oct. 10.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Cambridge. Order to pay to William marquis of Juliers and earl of Cambridge or to Tilemannus de Werda and William Muschet, his attorneys, 10l. for Michaelmas term last, in accordance with the king's grant to him on 7 May in the 14th year of the reign of 20l. to be received yearly for himself and the heirs of his body of the issues of that county.
To the collectors of customs in the port of Boston. Order to pay to William de Melchebourn 10l. for Michaelmas term last, in accordance with the king's grant to him on 25 April in the 10th year of the reign for his good service in redeeming the king's great crown, which he brought to England from Flanders, of 20l. to be received yearly for life of the issues of the customs in that port.
To William de Clynton, earl of Huntyngdon, fermor of the priory of Treulegh, in the king's hand by reason of the war with France. Order to pay to Gawan Corder or to his attorney 20l. for Michaelmas term last, in accordance with the king's grant to him on 18 February in the 16th year of the reign of 40l. to be received yearly of the ferm of that priory so long as it should remain in the king's hand.
Oct. 20.
Westminster.
To the abbot of St. Albans. Order to cause the tenth granted by the clergy of the province of Canterbury in their last convocation in St. Paul's church, London, due from his exempt jurisdiction, for the second year, to be levied with all speed.
Vacated.
Membrane 7.
Oct. 20.
Westminster.
To the collectors of the customs in the ports of Newcastle upon Tyne and Hertilpol. Order to pay to John de Stryvelyn what is in arrear to him of 190 marks for Easter and Michaelmas terms past, as the king granted to him 200 marks to be received yearly of the issues of the customs in those ports, to wit 140 marks in the port of Newcastle and 60 marks in the port of Hertilpol, and afterwards the king caused him to be satisfied for 10 marks rent yearly in part satisfaction of the said 200 marks, for himself and the heirs male of his body, in the 23rd year of the reign.
Nov. 18.
Westminster.
To William de Middelton, escheator in Norfolk. Order to take the fealty of Richard son of Philip son of John Broun, in accordance with the form of a schedule enclosed, and to deliver to him the advowson of the church of St. Peter, Shipden, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that Philip at his death held the said advowson in his demesne as of fee, in chief in free socage by fealty, and that Richard is his next heir and of full age.
Nov. 6.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and chamberlains of the exchequer, Dublin. Order to pay 46l. 4s. to Thomas Wogan, knight, as by the account of Thomas Crosse, clerk, lately deputed to pay wages to the men at arms lately in the king's service in Scotland, rendered at the exchequer of England, the king is bound to Thomas Wogan in 46l. 4s. for his wages and those of his men at arms from 7 June in the 9th year of the reign until 15 October following, during which time Thomas was in the king's service with his said men in those parts in the company of John Darcy, the justiciary of Ireland, as is found by the certificate of the treasurer and barons of the exchequer, England, sent into chancery. By C.
Oct. 1.
Westminster.
To Richard de Thoresby, keeper of the hanaper of chancery. Order to pay to David de Wollore, keeper of the chancery rolls, 50l. for Easter and Michaelmas terms last, in accordance with the king's grant to him, for his good service and to maintain himself less slenderly in his estate, of 50l. to be received yearly of the issues of the hanaper until the king provide him with ecclesiastical benefices to that value beyond those which he now holds.
June 2.
Windsor.
To the sheriff of Oxford for the present or the future. Order to pay to Margery Ingelby 2d. a day and 10s. yearly for her robe, in accordance with the king's grant to her for her good service to his daughter Isabel and because she is so aged that she cannot travail further, of 2d. a day in aid of her maintenance and 10s. yearly for the robe, to be received for life of the issues of that county, in the same way as Humphrey le Forester, deceased, received the like, of the king's grant.
Nov. 17.
Westminster.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to supersede the demand made upon the prioress and sisters of the house of St. James without Canterbury for the triennial tenth and fifteenth now current, on account of the want of that house, and to discharge thereof both them and the taxers and collectors of the tenth and fifteenth in Kent, as on its being found by inquisition taken by John de Vielston, then sheriff of Kent, that the lands and goods of the said house were worth nothing beyond the maintenance of the prioress and sisters and their serjeants and the other charges incumbent upon the house, and did not suffice for that, the king ordered the treasurer and barons to supersede the demand made upon them for the wool due from them for the 15th and 16th years in the reign, and to discharge them and the collectors of that wool thereof, and subsequently on 17 February in the 22nd year of the reign, the king ordered the treasurer and barons to supersede the demand made upon the prioress and convent for the triennial tenth and fifteenth then granted. By C.
Dec. 6.
Westminster.
To Peter de Grymesby, escheator in the liberty of Holdernesse. Order to take the fealty of Robert Lorymer in accordance with the form of a schedule enclosed, and not intermeddle further with a messuage in Wyton, 4 tofts and 13½ bovates of land in that town, and 2 tofts, 4 bovates of land in Great Coldon, restoring the issues thereof to him and to Alice his wife, late the wife of John son of John de Wyton, and to deliver the hall in that messuage and the bodies of Isabel and Cristiana, John's daughters, to the said Robert and Alice to whom the king has granted the custody of the hall and the marriage of those daughters, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that John at his death held in his demesne as of fee the said hall in a messuage in Wyton and he also held the messuage, except the hall, the tofts and bovates, jointly with Alice, and that the messuage, hall, tofts and land in Wyton are held in chief as of the honour of Albemarle, in the king's hand, and the tofts and land in Great Coldon are held of another than the king, and that Isabel and Cristiana, John's daughters, are his next heirs and under age.
Dec. 8.
Westminster.
To Hugh de Louthre, escheator in Westmorland. Order to take the fealty of Joan late the wife of John de Haveryngton of Caldecotes, in accordance with the form of a schedule enclosed, and not to intermeddle further with two parts of the manor of Thirneby, a messuage and 80 acres of land called 'Tranterne' in the town of Thirneby, restoring the issues thereof to her, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that John at his death held no lands in his demesne as of fee in that bailiwick, but that he held jointly with Joan the said two parts, messuage and land in chief as of the knights' fees which belonged to William de Coucy, in the king's hand, by homage and the service of 33s. 4d. yearly.
Membrane 6.
Oct. 28.
Westminster.
To Peter de Nuttle, escheator in the county of York. Order to amove the king's hand from a toft of William de Bulmere in Oversilton, and not to intermeddle further therewith, restoring the issues thereof to William, as the king ordered the escheator to certify him why he had taken that toft into the king's hand and the escheator returned that he had so taken it because he had found by inquisition of office that Henry le Rendour, who formerly held it, was an adherent of the king's Scottish enemies, and afterwards at William's suit showing the king that Henry had not joined the Scots at any time, but that he had been taken with his wife and two sons at Beghlandbank in the late king's time, by the said Scots, in war, and taken to Scotland against his will, and he afterwards escaped and fled to the isle of Man with his wife and sons and stayed there for some time at the king's faith and peace, and afterwards he came to England with his wife and sons to the island of Axiholm, and there died in the king's faith, and William beseeching the king to order his hand to be amoved, the king ordered the escheator to take an inquisition upon the matter, by which it is found that the aforesaid allegations were true, and that after his death, William his son and heir entered that toft and held it for a long time, and he alienated it in fee to Thomas de Bulmere, chaplain, who granted it by charter to William de Bulmere.
Nov. 8.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Cambridge and Huntingdon. Order to deliver to Master Thomas Powys, warden of the scholars whom the king maintains by his alms in the university of Cambridge, what is in arrear to him of his robes and to deliver his robes to him yearly henceforth, in accordance with the king's grant to him on 28 September in the 8th year of the reign of 3d. a day and two robes yearly, to wit one with fur and one with linen, so long as he should remain warden, as Master John de Langetoft, the late warden, used to receive the same.
Nov. 12.
Westminster.
To the mayor and bailiffs of Oxford for the present or the future. Order to pay to the provost and scholars of the house of St. Mary, Oxford 23l. 5d. yearly, as Henry III granted by charter that the lepers of the hospital of St. Bartholomew without Oxford should receive 19l. 15s. 5d. for their maintenance and 65s. for clothes yearly of the ferm of that town, and the king has confirmed that grant to the said provost and scholars, to whom he has given the said hospital with its houses, lands, rents and rights.
Oct. 30.
Westminster.
To the collectors of the tenth and fifteenth in Essex. Order to supersede the demand made upon John Fermer, knight, for his portion of that tenth and fifteenth for Easter term last by reason of his lands in that county, as his lands were in the king's hand from 18 November last until 25 May following, as is found by inspection of the chancery rolls. By C.
The like to the following for John, to wit:—
The collectors of the tenth and fifteenth in the county of Northampton.
The collectors of the tenth and fifteenth in the county of Hertford.
The collectors of the tenth and fifteenth in the county of Buckingham.
The like to the collectors of the tenth and fifteenth in Essex for Robert de Marny, knight.
Nov. 1.
Westminster.
To the sheriff of Cambridge. Order to pay to John de Lisle 50 marks for Michaelmas term last, in accordance with the king's grant to him of 100 marks to be received yearly of the issues of the counties of Cambridge and Huntingdon.
Oct. 26.
Westminster.
To John de Coggeshale, escheator in Essex. Order to amove the king's hand from the goods and chattels of William Baltrip at Reyndon, except three mares, a bullock, three heifers, and two pairs of goats, and not to intermeddle further therewith, retaining in the king's hand until further order the said mares, bullock, heifers, and goats, as the king ordered the escheator to certify him why those goods had been taken into the king's hand and whether they were his own goods or belonged to Margaret de la Warde or to John Hervy, and the escheator returned that it was found by inquisition that those goods did not belong to William but they belonged to Margaret, except the said mares, bullock, heifers and goats, price 28s.
Oct. 18.
Westminster.
To Ralph de Baggele. Order to pay a rent of 5s. 10d. and 140 geese together with the arrears thereof as it used to be paid, as on its being found by inquisition taken by Thomas Cary, escheator in Dorset, after the death of John de Wake, tenant in chief, that 40 acres of meadow and 80 acres of pasture at Hull in that county, in the king's hand by reason of John's death and of the minority of John son of Hugh Tyrel, his kinsman and heir, and in Ralph's keeping by the king's commission are held of William Bruyn by the service of an eighth part of a knight's fee and payment of the said rent to him yearly at his manor of Randolfeston at St. Peter ad Vincula, the king wishes William to be satisfied for the arrears of that rent and to receive that rent henceforth until the said heir come of age, and the king ordered the sheriff of Dorset to notify Ralph to be in chancery on the quinzaine of Michaelmas last, to show cause why the said rent and arrears should not be paid during that custody, and he did not come on that day when summoned.
Membrane 5.
Nov. 20.
Westminster.
To the mayor and bailiffs of Newcastle upon Tyne and to the collectors of customs in the port of that town. Order to take security from Bothewynus Seuard that he will take 320 quarters of sea coal to the ports of Holand and Seland and not to Flanders or to the king's enemies, and to permit him to lade that coal in ships of the said parts, in that port, and take them to those parts in accordance with the king's grant to him, after he has paid the custom thereon. By C.
The following have like writs to take merchandise to the said parts in the following ports, to wit:—
Nov. 15.
Westminster.
William de Gnateshale of Norwich and John Staloun of Norwich for eight packs of 'worstede,' and William Mowe of Great Yarmouth for 12 packs of 'worstede' in the port of Great Yarmouth.
Sept. 25.
Westminster.
Frowinus de Dalehousen, merchant of Almain, for cheese to the value of 26l. in the port of London. By C.
Peter de Sande of Seland for 300 ells of woollen cloth, 5 bacon hogs, 2 tuns of butter and 2 weighs of cheese, in the port of London.
William Clayson for 200 quarters of 'gayghelsed' and 50 quarters of 'murstardsed,' a weigh of cheese, 50 ells of woollen cloth and 2 pockets of feathers in the port of Lenn.
Nov. 8.
Westminster.
Herman Repelyn, merchant, for 20 weighs of cheese in the port of London.
Oct. 15.
Westminster.
Jordan de Elsyng of London, 'mercer,' for cheese to the value of 30l. in the port of London.
Thomas de Mecchyng, for cheese to the value of 20l. in the port of London.
Oct. 20.
Westminster.
Edmund de Ocle for 12 packs of 'worsted' cloth in the port of Great Yarmouth.