June 8.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and the barons of the exchequer, and to the chamberlains. Order to pay to Juliana who was wife of William de Clynton
late earl of Huntyngdon 73l. of the treasury; as among other lands
and rents of her said husband to her assigned in dower on 31 October
in the 31st year of his reign, the king assigned to her 33l. 6s. 8d. of the
farms of the towns of Wynchelse and la Rye, the manor of Ihamme
and the marsh there, as in his letters patent is contained; and after
at the suit of Juliana, alleging that the town of Wynchelse, the manor
and marsh aforesaid, as well by the king's alien enemies as by inundations of the sea are almost wholly destroyed, that 6d. a day of the issues
of la Rie was on 20 June in the 32nd year of the reign granted by the
king for life to William de Passeleu one of his seamen, and was paid
him from that date, that 6s. yearly issuing from a house of the
hospital of St. Bartholomew Wynchelse, parcel of the farm of
Wynchelse, was on 6 August in the 32nd year pardoned by the king
to the brethren of the hospital for 10 years, and that since the
assignment of the said farms she has received only 77l. 4d. thereof,
as may appear by the account of the bailiffs, also that one
bailiff has been by the king appointed in the town of la Rye
and another in the town of Wynchelse and the said manor and marsh,
wherein there used to be but one, and both have taken their fees
(amounting to the double of one fee) of the farms aforesaid, and the
same were by so much diminished, and praying that the king would
assign her that yearly sum in competent places elsewhere that she might
be thereof contented, and cause payment to be made of the arrears,
the king by writ commanded the treasurer, barons and chamberlains to
view the accounts of the said bailiffs, search the rolls and memoranda of
the exchequer, and certify in chancery under the exchequer seal what
they should find; and they certified that, after search made from
31 October aforesaid to Michaelmas at the end of the 36th year, it
is found in the account of Vincent Fynch bailiff of the said towns,
manor and marsh from 15 April in the 30th year to 1 April in the 32nd
year that 16l. 13s. 4d. was paid to the said Juliana in part payment,
namely for part of the 32nd year, in his account as bailiff of Wynchelse
from 1 April in the 32nd year to 1 April in the 36th year allowance
is made to her of 47l. 4d. in part payment of the 33rd and 34th years,
also in the great roll of the 36th year under the head of Sussex, in
an allowance made to William Taillour bailiff of la Rye, that 30l.
was paid to her of the issues of that town from 9 July in the 32nd year
to Michaelmas at the end of the 36th year in part payment, and so the
total allowance made to her from 31 October in the 31st year, to
Michaelmas at the end of the 36th year was 93l. 13s. 4d., and that it is not
found in the exchequer at present that any other allowance or payment
is being made her for the cause above mentioned, for that the said
bailiffs have not yet accounted since that date, and so it appears
that 73l. are in arrear up to that date. By K. and C. |
