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Dec. 14. Westminster. |
To the sheriffs of London. Order by mainprise of John Boseville
of Pontefract of Yorkshire, John Landewarnak of London, Nicholas
Mirfelde 'goldsmyth' and Hugh Caune, both of London, to set free
John Sampsoun of Plymmuth who is in the sheriffs' custody in the
city prison; as lately the king ordered them to keep him in custody
until further order; but John Boseville and the others have mainperned in chancery body for body to have him before the king and
council from day to day upon warning received. |
Dec. 12. Westminster. |
To the collectors of customs and subsidies in the port of London.
Order to suffer the friars of the order of Carmelites of Calais to lade in
a ship in that port and without payment of custom or subsidy to take
to Calais six salt fish, twenty 'stokfisshe,' two casks of red herring
and one barrel of white herring by them bought and purveyed for
consumption of their household, any ordinances, proclamations or
commands to the contrary notwithstanding. |
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Oct. 29. Westminster. |
To the prior and convent of Bernewelle for the time being. Order
of the fee farm of the manor of Cestreton to pay to Theodoric Styuaux
the king's esquire 11l. a year and the arrears since 27 September
last; as by letters patent of 14 April 13 Richard II the king granted
him, in recompense for wages which he used to take within the household, 10l. a year of the issues of Wiltesir by the sheriff's hands, for
life or until the king should take other order for his estate, and by
other letters patent of 27 September last granted him for good service
11l. a year from Michaelmas then last for life, to be taken of the said
fee farm by the hands of the prior and convent, and by reason of the
clause 'quousque' in the first letters patent he may not without special
grace of the king enjoy the said 10l. a year; and for his good service
the king has granted him for life by other letters patent both the
10l. of the issues of Wiltesir and the 11l. of the said fee farm, the said
clause notwithstanding. |
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Et erat patens. |
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To the sheriff of Wiltesir for the time being. Like order for payment
of 10l. a year and the arrears since 14 April aforesaid. |
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Et erat patens. |
Dec. 14. Westminster. |
To the collectors of customs and subsidies in the port of Jernemuth
and the bailiffs of that town. Order, upon the instant petition of
certain merchants of York and Notyngham, by mainprise of John
Saumon, John Craweshawe, John Plumptre and Henry Plumptre,
all of Notyngham, by indenture containing the quantity and price of
the goods and the amount of the money, to deliver to the petitioners
or their deputies all that yet remain in the keeping of the collectors
and bailiffs of the goods etc. hereinafter mentioned, and all moneys
arising from such parcel thereof as was exposed for sale; as upon
clear information that herring and other goods and merchandise of
the petitioners amounting to 600 marks were lately taken in Scotland
contrary to the present truce, willing that all wool, hides, woolfells
and other merchandise of merchants of Scotland in a ship of Camfer,
Forboltus de Camfer master, driven by stress of weather to Kirkeleyrode should be put under safe keeping without dispersal, that meantime
at suit of the Scots merchants the keepers of the truce in Scotland
might take order for a remedy, the king ordered the collectors and bailiffs
to cause the same to be all unladed and, by oversight of the owners
or their attorneys, to be put by indentures containing the quantity
and price thereof in the hands of certain trusty men of Jernemuth;
and upon particular information that divers of those goods might
not be kept without great loss and damage, if not speedily exposed
for sale, by another writ the king ordered the collectors and bailiffs
to cause all such as might not be kept to be sold in presence of six
burgesses of the most discreet men of the town, and the money to be
safe kept until further order, suffering the buyers without payment of
custom or subsidy to take the same to any foreign parts they should
please of the king's friendship; and now the petitioners have prayed
for delivery to them of the said goods or the price thereof, and John
Saumon and the others have mainperned in chancery under a pain of
200l. to make restitution to the merchants of Scotland in case it be
hereafter adjudged by the king and council that restitution ought to
be made them. |
Dec. 23. Westminster. |
To the sheriffs of London. Order without delay and excuse to
dearrest and deliver to the abbot of Colchestre, who came to the
chancery by command of the king, sixteen horses of his by them arrested
while he was under special protection of the king; as lieges who come
to the king's parliaments, councils and courts at his command ought
to be, and in times past used to be free of arrest of their persons, horses
and goods while coming thither, there remaining, and returning to
their own again. |
Dec. 28. Eltham manor. |
To the steward and bailiffs of Droghda on the side of Meath. Order,
upon petition of Lukyn Spinola of Genoa (Janua) merchant, to suffer
him to sell his salt at retail or in gross according to the statutes and
ordinances hereinafter mentioned, the pretended privileges and
liberties of the steward and bailiffs notwithstanding; as his complaint
shews that he caused a ship laded with salt for relief of Ireland to be
brought to Droghda, and would have sold the salt at retail, but by
reason of certain privileges etc. the steward and bailiffs have wilfully
and unlawfully hindered him from so doing, suffering him not to sell
it save in gross; and in a parliament holden in England an ordinance
and statute was lately made that all statutes published in England
shall take effect and be duly executed in Ireland as in England, and
another statute was after published that foreign merchants whatsoever
may without let or trouble sell their goods etc. at retail or otherwise
throughout the realm, any liberties granted by the king or his forefathers to the contrary notwithstanding. By p.s. [8450.] |
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Dec. 18. Westminster. |
To the escheator in Kent. Order for particular causes until further
order of the king to safe keep without diminution or sale all goods
and chattels of Robert Bradgare clerk, for what cause soever the same
were by him seized into the king's hand. By C. |