Close Rolls, Edward III: October 1353 | British History Online

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

'Close Rolls, Edward III: October 1353', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 9, 1349-1354, (London, 1906) pp. 578. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw3/vol9/p578a [accessed 23 April 2024]

October 1353



Oct. 18. Westminster.	To John Aunger and John Edewyn, collectors of customs in the port of Southampton. Order to permit Robert More, William White, Elias de Preston and John Dyere, merchants of Droghda to re-lade 18½ lasts of salted hides and take them to Flanders without paying the custom and subsidy thereon, if it is found that they laded the hides at the port of Droghda before the proclamation of the staple and paid the customs due thereon, as those merchants have shown the king that before the proclamation of the staple at Droghda they laded the said hides in that port of Droghda in a ship of Spain under their names and the names of certain other merchants of that land, to be taken thence to Flanders, and they paid the customs due thereon as may fully appear by the king's letters of coket, which they have in their possession, as they say, and although they came with the ship and hides to the port of Southampton to await a favourable wind there, and for no other cause, yet the said collectors have hitherto forbidden those hides to cross from that port, by reason of the said proclamation, and caused the hides to be landed, whereupon the merchants have besought the king to provide a remedy. By C.
Nov. 20. Westminster.	To Richard Hody, escheator in Devon. Order to assign dower to Margaret late the wife of John de Beauchamp of Ryme, tenant in chief, who has married Richard de Brauncecombe by the king's licence, and to Richard, of the lands which belonged to John at his death.
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Nov. 20. Westminster.	To Richard Hody, escheator in Devon. Order to deliver to Margaret late the wife of John de Beauchamp of Rym and to Richard de Brauncecombe now her husband, a third part of the manor of Woburneford, to hold in dower, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by Aymer fitz Waryn, late escheator in that county, that John at his death held the said manor in his demesne as of fee in chief by the service of a fourth part of a knight's fee.
Oct. 30. Westminster	To the sheriff of Kent. Order to pay to Elizabeth late the wife of John son of Edmund earl of Kent, Gerard de Braybrok and James Beauford, executors of John's will, what was in arrear to John of 30l. yearly of the issues of Kent, from 26 August in the 21st year of the reign until 27 December last, on which day John died, as is found by divers inquisitions, as the king granted to the said earl, his uncle, 30l. to be received yearly of those issues for himself and the heirs of his body under the name and honour of earl of Kent, and afterwards on the said 26 August, the king granted to John, the earl's son and heir, then a minor, now deceased, that all the lands of his inheritance then in the king's hand should be delivered to him together with the rents and ferms thereof, from Michaelmas term then following, in aid of his maintenance, until he should come of age, and afterwards on 10 April in the 25th year of the reign the king took the heir's homage and rendered to him all the lands of his inheritance.