Close Rolls, Richard II: December 1398

Calendar of Close Rolls, Richard II: Volume 6, 1396-1399. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1927.

'Close Rolls, Richard II: December 1398', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Richard II: Volume 6, 1396-1399, (London, 1927) pp. 366-367. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/ric2/vol6/pp366-367 [accessed 24 April 2024]

December 1398



	Membrane 7.
Dec. 19. Westminster.	To William Bolle escheator in Lincolnshire. Order in presence of the next friends of Henry son and heir of John de Bello Monte knight, a minor in ward of the king, or of their attorneys, to assign to Katherine who was the said John's wife dower of the knights' fees and advowsons of her husband.
	Like writ to the escheator in Leycestershire.
Dec. 19. Westminster.	To Adam Hastynges. Strict order under pain of forfeiture of life and limb etc., for particular causes nearly moving the king, to depart out of the realm before the morrow of the Circumcision next, never to return. By p.s. [12551. (fn. 1) ]
	To the sheriff of Hereforde. Order upon sight etc. straightway to cause proclamation to be made, that no man under pain of forfeiture of all his goods shall after the morrow of the Circumcision next receive, comfort or harbour Adam Hastynges, whom the king has ordered (as above) to depart out of the realm. By p.s. (as above).
Dec. 16. Coventry.	To R. archbishop of Canterbury. Order to do his part for the observance during so long a space of the moderation and toleration, the tenor whereof the king is sending enclosed, as pertains to his pastoral office, and further with all speed to give notice thereof by several letters to other the bishops his brethren and suffragans of the province of Canterbury, commanding that the same be observed, and directing them to give like notice to other the prelates and clergy of their dioceses, and to observe the same at their peril; as for the honour of God and the church of Rome, because of his affection for the now pope, and out of regard for Peter bishop of Dax the nuncio, whose furtherance the king desires for that he is the king's liege and to him acceptable beyond all others heretofore suing for this matter, the king's will is to moderate the statute against provisors published in the parliament holden at Westminster in 13 Richard II, that such moderation be tolerated the said statute or others to the contrary notwithstanding, and that it take effect from the feast of the Conception last until the next parliament. By K.
	Like writ to R. archbishop of York.
	[For the enclosure, see Wilkins, Concilia, iii. p. 237.]
Dec. 21. Westminster.	To the mayor and bailiffs of Dertemuth, and the bailiff of the estuary (aque maritime) there or to his representative. Order, upon petition of John Roos and John Doryo of Spain merchants, presented before the king and council, to view the articles of the truce between the king and his father of France which concern the matter, the tenor whereof the king has sent them, and not to trouble the petitioners contrary to the same in their persons or property, dearresting and delivering up a barge called 'la Seynt Michell' of St. Maius (de Sancto Maio) in Spain, John Pierres master, with the iron and other merchandise therein, if they shall find that it was arrested contrary to the truce, that for lack of justice the petitioners have no cause for a second complaint; as they have shewn the king that in Spain they laded the said barge with iron etc. of theirs and other merchants there to be brought to England for traffic, and on the voyage touched at the port of Dertemuth relying on the truce, and that although they there sold great part of such goods to divers persons of the town, and paid the customs, subsidies etc. thereupon due, certain lieges of the king procured the arrest of the barge so laded in name of marque or reprisal, and are unlawfully keeping it under arrest, averring of malice that ships and goods of theirs were lately taken at sea and eloigned by sea robbers and evildoers of Spain; and the king's will is that in all articles the truce be kept, as he is sworn to do, and that justice be done to all men, native and alien, who ought thereby to benefit, and will make complaint to the king of losses suffered contrary to the same. By C.
	To the same. Like order, mutatis mutandis, upon petition of Domyngus Ferandes of Spain, master of a barge called the 'Seint Thomas' of la Croigne, and the seamen thereof. By C.