Close Rolls, Richard II: December 1391

Calendar of Close Rolls, Richard II: Volume 4, 1389-1392. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1922.

'Close Rolls, Richard II: December 1391', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Richard II: Volume 4, 1389-1392, (London, 1922) pp. 527-528. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/ric2/vol4/pp527-528 [accessed 19 April 2024]

December 1391



Dec. 6. Westminster.	To the mayor and sheriffs of London. Order to cause proclamation to be made in the city and suburbs of an ordinance made in the last parliament, with assent of the parliament, that the staple shall remain until Midsummer next in ports and places within the realm wherein it was appointed by the statute of the staple made in 27 Edward III, and that all merchants native and alien may without impeachment buy and sell wool, hides and woolfells in whatsoever part and of whatsoever persons within the realm, of owners of sheep and others, carry the same to the staples, and when there weighed and cocketed may from 2 December last until Midsummer take them to any foreign parts they will, first paying the customs, subsidies etc. thereupon due, any statutes or ordinances to the contrary notwithstanding, and that all such merchants who shall custom and cocket the same before that date shall within half a year in the name of him in whose name that is done bring to the king's bullion in the Tower of London one ounce of gold of foreign coin for every sack of wool, every half last of hides, and every 240 woolfells, and if they shall not so do, shall pay, 13s. 4d. for every sarpler of wool, every last of hides and every 480 woolfells, over and above the customs, subsidies etc. thereupon due; and order so far as in them lies to cause the same to be kept.
	Like writs to singular the sheriffs throughout England, and to John duke of Aquitaine and Lancastre or to his chancellor in the duchy of Lancastre.
Dec. 6. Westminster.	To the sheriff of Notyngham. Order to cause proclamation to be made in Notyngham etc. of the revocation and annulment of the king's commission to John de Kentwode knight and others, and the quashing of every process by virtue or colour thereof made, and that Richard de Byroun and Joan his wife may without let of the mayor, bailiffs and commonalty of Notyngham and of others whatsoever build again their weir which by colour thereof was thrown down; as their petition presented in the last parliament shewed that they and all others whose estate they have in the manor of Colwyke by Notyngham had time out of mind as parcel thereof a water mill and a weir near the said manor, which mill and the fishery used to be worth 40 marks a year, and whereto a part of the river Trent used to flow by a cut, that by a feigned and untrue averment the mayor and bailiffs with other enemies of the petitioners procured the said commission, and that by colour thereof without due process they threw down the weir without the knowledge of the petitioners and without warning to them, praying for remedy; and that petition was heard and read in the said parliament, the commission, the process thereupon made, and the petitioner's evidences were with deliberation viewed and examined by the justices, and report was made in parliament by them that the commission issued contrary to the law, and that the petitioners shewed many matters of record in favour of their right, wherefore it was in parliament determined that the commission be revoked etc. as aforesaid.