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Nov. 7.
Carlisle. |
To the sheriff of Leicester and Warwick. Order to go in person to
Warwick on Sunday after the octaves of St. Martin, and to cause the
king's late inhibition of tournaments [as at p. 408, above] to be publicly
proclaimed, and to cause all earls, barons, knights and others whom he
shall find to have come thither for this reason to be inhibited on the
king's behalf from tourneying, tilting (burdiare) or jousting or otherwise
going with arms there or elsewhere in the realm, under pain of forfeiture
of all that they can forfeit, and if he find any one presuming to contravene
this inhibition to cause their horses and armour (hernesia) to be arrested
and kept safely until otherwise ordered, and to put those thus contravening
by mainprise to be at the parliament at Lincoln in the octaves of St. Hilary
next to answer to the king for the premises, and order to have there
the names of those thus put upon mainprise and the names of their
mainpernors, as although the king made the aforesaid inhibition of
tournaments before Michaelmas last, during his return from Galloway
(Galwithie), in the presence of certain earls, barons and other magnates
of the realm then with him at Carlaverok, he understands that some
persons have caused a tournament at Warwick to be proclaimed, and have
fixed the aforesaid Sunday for it, in contempt of the king's inhibition
aforesaid. |
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Nov. 3.
Carlisle. |
To the sheriff of Kent. The king lately, considering that the estate of
the realm received great loss and damage by the forgers who brought
false, deceitful and corrupt money into it from parts beyond sea, caused
to be ordained in his parliament at Stebenhethe near London, among other
things, that all those bringing into his realm or elsewhere within his
power sterlings from parts beyond sea should forthwith present themselves
before the keepers of the ports in which they arrive in order to deliver to
them the money brought with them, to be sent by the keepers to the
nearest assayers of the king's money for view and proof whether the
money be good and lawful, as is more fully contained in the said
ordinance, which the king sent to the sheriff and to other sheriffs under
his seal, ordering him to cause the ordinance and all the articles
contained in it to be publicly proclaimed in cities, boroughs, market
towns and other places in his bailiwick where he should deem fit,
and to cause keepers to be appointed and sworn in every port and
place in which ships, boats or any vessels may arrive for the observance
of the ordinance; and since, owing to the ordinance not being executed or
observed in due manner through the fault and negligence of the sheriff and
of the keepers, a certain quantity of money in entirely false sterlings forged
under the king's name and royal title by hateful presumption, whereof the
king has seen a great part, and which are so like his true and lawful
money of sterlings now made in many places within the realm that they
can scarcely be distinguished from them by any one, lately brought into
the realm, which occurrence may justly be ascribed to the sheriff and the
keepers, has been arrested in the hands of certain merchants from parts
beyond sea, and a far greater sum of such false sterlings has been forged
in the said parts in order to be brought into the realm, as appears by the
assertion and confession of the said merchants or rather forgers, to the
subversion of the king's money of his own dye (cuneo): the king, lest
greater and worse losses and damages succeed to the previous ones, orders
the sheriff, as he has ordered him at another time, to consider the
premises intently, and to cause the ordinance in all its articles to be
again (adhuc) published throughout all the ports and places whatsoever in
his bailiwick in which there is or may be any arrival of ships, under the
penalties contained in the ordinance, and to cause it to be firmly observed,
appointing keepers in places where it shall seem expedient and where there
were none before, and to cause all ports and places where there is ingress
in his bailiwick to be kept by the said keepers with such diligence that by
the sheriff's and their industry and diligence the malice of the forgers may
be obviated who scheme to commit such deceit and fraud. The sheriff
and the keepers are enjoined to so conduct themselves in diligently
executing the premises and in completing them with watchful care and
with all their power, that they shall not fall into the pains aforesaid,
which the king wills they shall incur if they happen to be found negligent
in this matter. |
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The like to the sheriffs of the following counties, keepers and justices: |
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Essex and Hertford. |
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Surrey and Sussex. |
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Southampton. |
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Somerset and Dorset. |
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Devon. |
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Cornwall. |
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Gloucester. |
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Lancaster. |
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Lincoln. |
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York. |
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Northumberland. |
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Cumberland. |
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Hereford. |
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London. |
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Robert de Burghersh, warden of the Cinque Ports. |
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John de Havering, justice of Wales. |
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John Wogan, justiciary of Ireland. |
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Richard de Mascy, justice of Chester. |
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The keeper of Berwick. |
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Otto de Grandi Sono, keeper of the islands of Gerneseye and
Gereseye, or to him who supplies his place. |
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The like to the sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, with an additional clause
ordering him to cause inquisition to be made as to what port or ports,
place or places in his bailiwick the said false money was brought to after
the aforesaid ordinance, and how it was brought, and to attach the keepers
of the port or place to which it was brought, so that he shall have them
before the king in the octaves of St. Hilary next to answer to him in
this behalf and to do further what his court shall consider. |
