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Membrane 36. |
1393. June 23.
Westminster. |
To all farmers, tenants, bailiffs and ministers of Risynge of John
duke of Brittany count of Montfort and earl of Richemond, and all
lieges to whom etc. Order to such farmers etc., under pain of forfeiture,
to cease from a second time committing waste, falling or selling no
oaks or trees growing in woods which pertain to the castle or manor
of Risynge co. Norfolk for any cause whatsoever without special
command of the king, and suffering none to be cut or carried away
by others, and to all lieges, forbidding them under like pain to buy
such oaks etc. of the said farmers etc. or to carry them from those
woods, knowing of a surety that if they shall do contrary to this
command the king will not leave it unpunished; as with advice and
assent of the great council the king lately gave the said castle and
manor with all members and appurtenances to the said duke and
Joan the king's sister deceased, late the duke's wife, and to the heirs
of the duke's body so long as Brest castle shall remain in the king's
hand, and until restitution thereof shall be made to the duke or his
heirs, according to a treaty made between the king and the duke; and
now the king is informed that the said farmers etc. have caused and
cease not to cause great number of oaks etc. to be cut down as aforesaid,
and sold to divers men of the parts adjacent. |
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Et erat patens. |
June 27.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Bedford and Bukingham for the time being. Order
from time to time of the issues of those counties to pay to Elizabeth de
Veer daughter of the earl of Devon, whom Andrew Luterell knight
deceased took to wife, 100l. a year and the arrears since Easter 4
Richard II; as by letters patent of 20 May that year the king granted
her 200l. a year, namely 100l. a year of the issues of Cambridgeshire
and Huntingdonshire, and 100l. a year of the issues of the counties
aforesaid from Easter then last for life or until the king should make
her provision for life of 200l. a year of land or rent. |
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Et erat patens. |
June 25.
Westminster. |
To the collectors of customs and subsidies in the port of London.
Order to suffer Bernard Maryone merchant of Venys in that port to
lade in ships and, after paying the customs, subsidies etc. thereupon
due, by himself and his servants to take over to foreign parts fifty dozen
red caps wherein is no grain, any former command of the king to the
contrary notwithstanding. For 20s. paid in the hanaper. |
July 4.
Westminster. |
To the keeper of the hanaper for the time being. Order from time
to time to suffer the warden and canons of the king's free chapel of
Wyndesore henceforward to be quit of great and petty fees for sealing
of charters, letters patent and writs original and judicial in chancery
and other the king's courts, according to a grant to them and their
successors made by letters patent of the late king, confirmed by the
king. |
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Et erat patens. |
July 1.
Westminster. |
Order to the sheriff of Stafford for election of a coroner instead of
William de Thikkenes, who is insufficiently qualified. |
July 4.
Westminster. |
Order to the sheriff of York for election of a coroner instead of Peter
Mauleverer knight, who is too sick and aged to travail about that
which concerns the office of coroner. |
June 25.
Westminster. |
Order to the sheriff of Warrewyk for election of a coroner instead of
William Austyn of Abbotessaltford, who is too sick and aged to exercise
that office. |
June 28.
Westminster. |
To the keepers, farmers or tenants of the manor of Hedyngdoun,
the hundred of Bolyngden and the hundred without the north gate of
Oxford in Oxfordshire for the time being. Order of the fee farm
of the said manor and hundreds to pay to Robert Bardolf the king's
knight for life 64l. a year over and above 17l. remaining of 27l. a year
thereof, and to the said Robert and Amice now his wife, late the wife
of John de Beverle the king's esquire, the said 17l. a year during their
lives and the life of either of them; as by letters patent of 30 January
46 Edward III the late king granted to the said John and Amice 27l.
a year of the said fee farm by the hands of Richard Dammory knight
then farmer or other the farmers thereof during their lives or until that
king should take other order for their estate, and by letters patent of
30 September 47 Edward III granted to the said John, in part of
15l. 8s. 9d. a year to him first granted, 10l. a year for life which Richard
Dammory was bound to render to the king for the manor of Godyngdoun,
so that [if] the said Richard should die in the said John's life time the
said John and Amice should hold that manor, for life of the said John
only, discharged of the said 10l. a year, with proviso that if the said
John should die in the life time of the said Richard, the said Richard
during his life, the said Amice during her life, if she should overlive
the said Richard and John, and the heirs of the said John should pay
for the same 10l. a year at the exchequer; and at the petition of the
said Amice, the said John being dead, by letters patent of 16 March
6 Richard II the king granted that, in recompense for 10l. of the 27l.
aforesaid, she should hold the manor of Godyngdoun for her life quit
of that 10l. a year; and for that the said Robert is retained for life
with the king, by letters patent of 16 June last the king granted him
for life the residue of the said fee farm over and above the 17l. so taken
by the said Amice for life, which farm amounts to 81l. a year in all
it is said, namely 64l. a year, granting him that 17l. a year after the
death of the said Amice, in case she shall die in his life time, for his
life or until by office or otherwise provision shall be made him for
life of 64l. and 17l. a year. |
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To the sheriff of Oxford for the time being. Order to suffer the said
Robert during his life to have the 64l. remaining over and above the
17l. a year above mentioned, and the said Robert and Amice during their
lives to have the said 17l. a year, not meddling in the levy thereof. |
June 23.
Westminster. |
Order to the sheriff of Norffolk for election of a coroner instead of
John de Gresham of Aylmerton; as for strife and disputes which have
arisen between Simon Felbrigge knight of the king's chamber and
the said John, and for that he was elected contrary to the statute it
is said, the king has removed him. |
July 1.
Westminster. |
To the justice, chancellor and treasurer of Ireland. Strict order
under a pain of 1,000l., which the king is purposed to levy of their
lands and chattels if they shall not obey this command, to take of
Roger de Mortuo Mari earl of March security which shall to them seem
sufficient and reasonable for their safe custody, and to deliver by
indenture to him or to his deputy having full power from him the son
of Edmund Savage son of Robert Savage, the son of John son of
Richard Savage, and the hostages of Nigel Oneel captain of the Irish
of Ulster, to be kept in custody until further order; as the king granted
to the said earl livery out of his hands of all castles, manors, lands etc.
of the earl's heritage in Ireland, and by writ of 29 June last commanded
the justice etc. to set free no Irish hostages and suffer none for other
hostages, for ransom or otherwise, to be set free, nor the said sons of
Edmund or of John delivered to the justice etc. as hostages for deliverance of Bernard son of the said Nigel late one of the hostages for his
father late the king's prisoner, as security for the good behaviour of the
said Nigel, Bernard and other his adherents toward the king and his
lieges of Ireland, nor any other hostages of the said Nigel who are in
their custody as like security, without special command of the king
to them addressed under the great seal of England; and now by
credible report the king has learned that in time of the earl's nonage
his lands were much wasted by the said Nigel and Bernard and by
their adherents, and the king is aware that he would keep their hostages
in the more careful custody because his lands were by them and their
adherents wasted, and are like to be in time to come if the said hostages
should be set free. By C. |
June 29.
Westminster. |
To the justice, chancellor and treasurer of Ireland. Strict order
under pain (as above) for the peace and safety of the king's subjects
of Ireland, to set free no Irish hostages and to suffer none to be set
free nor the sons of Edmund Savage and John (as above), delivered
(as aforesaid) to the justice etc., nor any other hostages of Nigel
Oneel, without special command of the king under the great seal of
England to the justice etc. addressed, and order before St. Martin
in winter next to certify in the chancery of England under the seal
used in Ireland the names of all the said hostages; as lately the king
commanded them not to set free Bernard the eldest son of the said
Nigel captain of the Irish of Ulster, late a hostage for his father late
the king's prisoner, nor other the hostages of the said Nigel, nor to
suffer them to be set free until further order, whom the said Nigel at
the time of his deliverance delivered to the custody of the king's then
ministers of Ireland as security for his good behaviour and for keeping
of the peace by him and his adherents toward the king and his lieges
of those parts; and now by credible report it has come to the king's
ears that, contrary to that command, they have set the said Bernard
free in contempt of the king, to the hurt of his said subjects and peril
of their utter ruin. By C. |
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June 28.
Westminster. |
To the mayor of Cantebrigge. Order by mainprise of John Hore
and John Marham of Cambridgeshire, John Roger 'taillour' and
Robert Sutton 'brouderer,' both of London, to set free John Reve
chaplain, imprisoned by order of Robert Parys and his fellows guardians
of the peace within the said town, at suit of Nicholas Styuecle
knight averring a threat to fire his houses. |
June 29.
Westminster. |
To the collectors in the port of London of the petty custom and of
the subsidy of 3s. upon every tun of wine and 12d. in the pound. Order
without taking custom or subsidy to suffer John Hadlee mayor of
the staple of Calais to lade in a ship in that port and take over to Calais
six cloths of scarlet and six red woollen cloths for his raiment and
raiment of his fellows of that staple against the king's coming thither,
and four tuns of wine for his consumption there. |
