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Oct. 8.
Guildford. |
To the sheriff of Hereford. Order to cause Roger Pychard, who is
staying in the king's service in parts beyond sea with Edmund, earl of Kent,
to have respite until Easter next for all debts due from him to the exchequer. |
Oct. 9.
Guildford. |
To Geoffrey le Scrop and his [fellows], justices to hold pleas before the
king. Order not to aggrieve John Flemyng at the suit of the king or
others by reason of the rebels' goods that he took and occupied whilst in the
king's company in the pursuit of the rebels, as the king has granted that
those who were in his company in pursuit of the rebels shall not be aggrieved
for the goods of the rebels that they took and occupied whilst in the king's
company in the said pursuit between 17 October, in the 15th year of his
reign, and 5 April following. By K. |
Oct. 10.
Guildford. |
To the sheriff of Derby. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be
elected in place of John son of John, who is insufficiently qualified. |
Oct. 11.
Byfleet. |
To Ralph Camoys, constable of Wyndesore castle. Order to deliver to
the king's chaplains celebrating divine service in the chapel of the castle
bread, wine, oil, and other small necessaries for the celebration of divine
service from Michaelmas last until next Michaelmas. |
Sept. 1.
Pevensey. |
Nicholas Fastolf, who is about to set out for Ireland by the king's order,
has letters of attorney in England under the names of Master Laurence
Falstolf and John Claver, to endure for three years. |
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Vacated, because on the Patent Roll. |
Oct. 13.
Sheen. |
To Geoffrey le Scrop and his fellows, justices to hold pleas before the
king. Order to continue until the quinzaine of Easter next all matters
moved against the bishop, dean, and chapter of St. Paul's London in the
last eyre of the justices at the Tower of London, which the king afterwards
caused to come before him and which he ordered to be continued until the
quinzaine of Michaelmas. By K |
Oct. 15.
Sheen. |
To Ralph de Camoys, constable of Wyndesore castle. Order to pay to
Edmund de Algate, porter of both gates, 4d. a day; to Alexander le
Peyntour, one of the viewers of the king's works, 2d. a day; to Thomas le
Rotour, the other viewer of the king's works, 2d. a day; to Adam the gardener of the garden without the castle, 2½d. a day; to the four watchmen
of the castle, 2d. a day each; to Robert de Wodeham, captain-forester of
Wyndesore forest, 12d. a day; to Ralph de la More, clerk of the works in
the castle, 2d. a day; to Thomas le Parker, keeper of Kenyngton park, 1½d.
a day: being their wages and stipends, from Michaelmas last to next
Michaelmas. |
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Membrane 29. |
Oct. 20.
The Tower. |
To Richard le Wayte, escheator in cos. Wilts, Southampton, Oxford,
Berks, Bedford, and Buckingham. Order to pay to Robert de Popham
8s. 3½d. yearly from the time when the lands of John de Bensted, tenant in
chief, were taken into the king's hands by reason of his death, and to pay
him the same for so long as the lands are in the king's hands, as the king
learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that John held at his death
certain lands in Bensted Popham of Robert de Popham by the service of
8s. 3½d. yearly. |
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The like to the said escheator in favour of Edmund Thurstan for 3s. 10d.
for lands that John held of him in Bensted Regis. |
Oct. 26.
The Tower. |
To John de Blomvill, escheator in cos. Norfolk, Suffolk, Huntingdon,
Cambridge, Essex, and Hertford. Order not to intermeddle further with
the lands of Thomas Baldewyn of Bergholt, and to restore the issues
thereof, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that
Thomas held no lands in chief as of the crown at his death by reason
whereof the custody of his lands ought to pertain to the king. |
Oct. 26.
The Tower. |
To the same. Order to pay to Richard le Mareschal 25l. for Michaelmas
term out of the issues of his bailiwick, in accordance with the king's grant
of 23 September, in the 11th year of his reign, to Richard of 50l. yearly
from the issues of the escheatorship this side Trent in aid of his maintenance, he having been ruined (destructus) by the Scotch rebels. |
Oct. 28.
The Tower. |
To Thomas de Wardecop, keeper of certain lands in the king's hands in
co. Westmoreland. Order to expend up to 10l. in repairing the houses,
walls, and other buildings within the castle of Brouham. |
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By bill of the treasurer. |
Oct. 30.
Westminster. |
To the same. Order to cause the king's watermill of the town of
Kyrkeby Stephan to be repaired for 6 marks, and to cause the timber
necessary for the same to be taken in the king's wood of Whinfel by the
view of his forester there, and to cause it to be carried to Kyrkeby Stephan
at the king's expense, as the men of that town have mainperned before
Robert de Beverlaco and John de Jakele, auditors of the accounts of the
issues of the lands aforesaid, to repair the watermill, which was burnt by
the Scotch rebels, for 6 marks, provided that the king find the timber
necessary for the same and cause it to be carried to the town. The king
has ordered the forester aforesaid to cause the timber to be delivered to
Thomas. |
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To the forester of Whinfel. Order to deliver to the aforesaid keeper
sufficient timber for the repair of the said mills. By bill of the treasurer. |
Oct. 30.
Westminster. |
To the sheriffs of London. Order to release William de Walyngford,
'brewer,' upon bail, upon his finding mainpernors to have him before the
king's justices at the first assize, as the king learns by the record of John
de Bousser and Hamo de Chigewell, the king's justices to deliver Neugate
gaol, that William, who is imprisoned therein for the death of Simon son of
Roger de Parys, slew the said Simon in self-defence. |
Oct. 28.
Westminster. |
To Robert de Hungerford, keeper of certain forfeited lands in co. Southampton. Order not to intermeddle further with a messuage in Suthampton,
and to restore the issues thereof, as the king learns by inquisition taken by
William Harden, Ralph de Bereford, and the said keeper that Agnes de
Brewes acquired the messuage from Henry Tyeys three years before Henry
adhered to the rebels, and that she has never changed her estate therein,
and that the messuage is held of the prior of God's House, Southampton,
by the service of 23s. and by the service of 18d. for a custom of that town
called 'Longavel,' yearly, and that the messuage is worth 6s. 8d. beyond
the said service, the keeper having taken the messuage into the king's
hands by reason of Henry's rebellion. |
Oct. 30.
Westminster. |
To Robert Power, chamberlain of North Wales and escheator there.
Order not to intermeddle further with certain lands in Eyros in North
Wales, and to restore to Simon Flynt of Coneway and Margaret his wife
the issues thereof from Midsummer last, as the king learns by inquisition
taken by Edmund, earl of Arundel, justice of Wales, that Simon and Margaret demised the said lands to John Cam, a member of the household of
Roger de Mortuo Mari of Chirk, a rebel, for the term of six years, and that
the term ended at Midsummer last, and that Simon and Margaret never
changed their estate therein, and it appears by inspection of the other part
of an indented deed exhibited by Simon in chancery that the demise was
made in form aforesaid, the chamberlain having taken the lands into the
king's hands by reason of John's adherence to Roger. |
Oct. 30.
The Tower. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to allow to John
de Blomvill, escheator in cos. Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge, Huntingdon,
Essex, and Hertford, 25l., which the king, on 26 October last, ordered him
to pay to Richard le Mareschal for Michaelmas term last, in accordance
with the king's grant, on 23 September, in the 11th year of his reign, to
Richard of 50l. yearly from the issues of the escheator's bailiwick. |
Oct. 20.
Westminster. |
To the same. Order to acquit Robert de Cliderou, late escheator this side
Trent, of the issues of the manor of Blakhale from the time of the death of
John de Wygeton, tenant in chief, the king having ordered him to deliver the
manor and the issues aforesaid to Dionisia, late the wife of the said John, because Walter de Wygeton, father of the said John, granted, by deed enrolled
in the late king's chancery, the said manor to John and Dionisia for her life
and to their heirs, and because John and Dionisia were seised of the manor
jointly for twenty-six years. |
Oct. 29.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Cumberland. Order to release Thomas Chapman and
Thomas Wedousone, men of Scotland, together with their beasts, goods, and
chattels, and to permit them to make their profit thereof and return home
without hindrance, as they have shown the king that although Ranulph de
Dacre, one of the keepers of the truce between the king and Robert de
Brus, received them into the king's safe conduct in coming with their beasts
and other goods from Scotland into this realm for the purpose of making
their profit, the sheriff has arrested them and their beasts, goods, and
chattels because they are of Scotland. |
Oct. 30.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to acquit John de
Norton, king's clerk, of the ferm of the manor of Brehill, co. Buckingham, from
25 March, in the 7th year of the king's reign, which manor the king on 6 May,
in the 2nd year of his reign, committed to John during pleasure, rendering
therefor 33l. yearly at which it was extended, as the king granted the
manor on 25 March aforesaid to Richard de Arundell with other things for
life for his maintenance in the king's service, as of the yearly value of 80l. |
Oct. 30.
Westminster. |
To Master Robert de Ayleston. Order to pay to the abbot and convent
of Westminster the arrears of 10s. yearly from 16 May last, when the king
committed to him during pleasure the custody of a messuage called 'Rosamund,' 14 acres of land, an acre of meadow, and 4 acres of pasture in
Westminster, which belonged to John de Benestede, deceased, tenant in
chief, and which were in the king's hand by reason of the minority of his
heir, rendering therefor yearly 26s. 6d., at which the lands are extended,
and to pay the above 10s. yearly for so long as he shall have the custody of
the said lands, as it is found by an inquisition taken by William de Weston,
escheator in cos. Surrey, Sussex, Kent, Middlesex, and in the city of
London, concerning the lands of the said John, that John held the
messuage and land aforesaid of the abbot and convent by the service of 10s.
yearly, which is not contained in the extent aforesaid. |
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To the sheriff of Lincoln. Order to cause a coroner for that county to
be elected in place of Richard Thurger, who is insufficiently qualified. |
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Membrane 28. |
Oct. 15.
The Tower. |
To John Everard, escheator in cos. Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, and
Dorset. Order to cause dower to be assigned to Elizabeth, late the wife of
Henry de Brok, tenant in chief, upon her taking oath not to marry without
the king's licence. |
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The like to John de Blounvill, escheator in cos. Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge, Huntingdon, Essex, and Hertford. |
Oct. 16.
The Tower. |
To Matthew Broun, escheator in cos. Lincoln, Northampton, and Rutland.
Order to cause Roger Bate of Acumby, son and heir of William Bate of
Acumby, tenant in chief, to have seisin of his father's lands, as he has proved
his age before the escheator and the king has taken his homage. |
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By K. on the information of W. de Ayre[mynne]. |
Oct. 18.
The Tower. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order not to permit
John Pecche to be aggrieved before them at the suit of the king or of any
other by reason of the goods that he took and occupied from the rebels and
their adherents whilst he was in the king's company in their pursuit, as the
king has granted that those who were in his company in pursuit of the
rebels shall not be molested by reason of the rebel's goods taken and
occupied by them in the said pursuit from 17 October, in the 15th year of
his reign, until 5 April following. |
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To the mayor and sheriffs of London. Order to release from prison in
Neugate John de Lorty, who was lately convicted before the sheriffs for
certain trespasses committed by him upon Richard de Burton of co. York,
Thomas de Bethum, and Adam de Berburn, when 30l. were adjudged to
Richard for his damages, 20l. to Thomas in like manner, and 20 marks to
Adam in like manner, if it appear to them that John has satisfied the said
Richard, Thomas, and Adam for their damages, as the king is given to
understand that he has done; notwithstanding the king's order to release
John, who is bound by agreement to set out in the king's service for
Gascony with ten men-at-arms in the next passage at Plymmuth, upon his
finding mainpernors to have him in prison at the king's will unless he set
out in the king's service aforesaid, the mayor and sheriffs having returned
that John was adjudged to prison until he should satisfy the said Richard,
Thomas, and Adam for their damages. By K. |
Oct. 10.
Byfleet. |
To John de Blounvill, escheator in cos. Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge,
Huntingdon, Essex, and Hertford. Order to pay to Joan de Thorthorald
10 marks for Michaelmas term last, in accordance with the king's grant of
11 June, in the 11th year of his reign, of 20 marks yearly from the issues of
the escheatry this side Trent in aid of her maintenance. |
Oct. 14.
Sheen. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to allow the
aforesaid 10 marks to the said John, who has paid that sum to Joan by
virtue of the preceding order. |
Oct. 17.
The Tower. |
To John de Thwayt, keeper of the king's manor of Brustewik in
Holdernes. Order to pay to Richard de Ikene, whom the king, on 8 March
last, appointed jointly with Humphrey de Waleden stewards of certain
castles, towns, manors, etc., in the king's hands in divers counties and
auditors of the accounts of those who ought to render account of the issues
of the aforesaid castles, towns, manors, etc., 40 marks yearly from the issues
of that manor, the king having, on 4 July following, granted that Richard
should receive 40 marks yearly from the issues of the castles, towns,
manors, etc., from the aforesaid 8 March for so long as he should remain in
the office aforesaid. By K. |
Oct. 24.
The Tower. |
To the bailiffs of the city of York. Order to pay to William de Ros of
Hamelak 75 marks from the ferm of that city for Michaelmas term last, in
accordance with the king's grant of 22 August, in the 16th year of his reign,
of that sum yearly at Michaelmas and Easter from the ferm of that city
and of the like amount from the ferm of the city of Lincoln, until the king
should provide him with 300 marks of land or rent yearly between the
waters of Thames and Tees, or until the king should restore to him the castle
of Werk, which William granted and released to the king. |
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The like to the bailiffs of the city of Lincoln. |
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William had like writs on 8 April following for Easter term, the king
being at King's Beaulieu. |
Oct. 15.
The Tower. |
To Edmund de Flete, keeper of certain lands in the city of London.
Order to pay to the prior of Holy Trinity, London, the arrears of a yearly
rent of 22s. from the time when the tenements that John de Bourne held
of the prior in the city came to the king's hands upon John's forfeiture, and
to pay him the same yearly henceforth, as he has shown the king that
although the tenements are held of him by the service of 22s. yearly as of
his church aforesaid, the keeper has deferred paying the said rent to the
prior from the time of his office, although the prior and his predecessors
have been seised of the rent by the hands of the said John and of other
tenants from time out of mind. |
Nov. 3.
Sheen. |
To the sheriff of Derby. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be
elected in place of John son of Gilbert de Derby, whom the king has
amoved from office because he has no lands in that county. |
Nov. 6.
Westminster. |
To the keeper of the manor of Feckenham. Order to expend up to
40 marks in repairing the messuages, mills, ponds, and sluices of the manor,
by the view and testimony of Thomas de Stok and John Aleyn of Wyche,
as the king understands that they need repair. |
Nov. 5.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to acquit the king's
yeoman Richard de Cave, to whom the king on 6th August, in the 10th
year of his reign, committed the custody of two parts of the manor of
Lathebury, co. Buckingham, and of two parts of the lands in Cainho that
belonged to Robert Dakanay, tenant in chief, during the minority of
Robert's heir, which two parts were extended at 9l. 15s. 8d. yearly, rendering therefor 12l. yearly, of the said 12l. yearly from 14 March, in the
13th year of the king's reign, when the king took the homage of Roger
Dakanay, son and heir of the said Robert, because he had proved his age
before Master Richard de Clare, late escheator this side Trent. |
Nov. 4.
Westminster. |
To Simon de Grymmesby, escheator in cos. York, Northumberland, Cumberland, and Westmoreland. Order to pay to Ralph de Hastingges the
arrears of 8 marks yearly, which the king, on 5 October, in the 17th year
of his reign, ordered Thomas de Burgh, then escheator beyond Trent, to pay
to Ralph from two parts of the manor of Thorpbasset [for the reasons
given at page 26 above], from the time of Simon's appointment as
escheator, and to pay him that sum yearly henceforth for so long as the said
two parts remain in his custody. |
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Membrane 27. |
Oct. 27.
The Tower. |
To John de Hampton, escheator in cos. Gloucester, Hereford, Worcester,
Salop, Stafford, and in the adjoining marches of Wales. Order to assign
dower to Eleanor, late the wife of Richard son of Elias de Sutton, tenant
in chief, upon her taking oath not to marry without the king's licence. |
Oct. 20.
The Tower. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to allow to Simon
le Chaumberlayn, sheriff of Lincoln, 40l., which he has paid to Alesia,
daughter and heiress of Henry de Lacy, late earl of Lincoln, for the 16th
and 17th years of the reign, by virtue of the king's order to the sheriff of
Lincoln, on 20 September, in the 16th year of his reign, to deliver to her
the court of the fee of La Haye, the bailey before the gate of Lincoln castle,
and 20l. yearly for the third part of the county of Lincoln, which
belonged to her father and were taken into the king's hands by the
forfeiture of Thomas, late earl of Lancaster, her husband, the king having
rendered the same to her for life. |
Oct. 21.
The Tower. |
To John de Bolingbrok, escheator in cos. Warwick, Leicester, Nottingham, Derby, and Lancaster. Order not to intermeddle further with the
manor of Kelm, and to restore the issues thereof, as the king learns by
inquisition taken by the escheator that Henry son of Walter Tonk of Kelm
holds the manor of Edmund de Cressy and his ancestors by the service of a
moiety of a knight's fee, and that Henry's ancestors have so held it from
time out of mind, and that Edmund and his ancestors held the manor in
service of the king and his progenitors in chief as of the honour of Tikhill
and of other lords of that honour from the time aforesaid, the escheator
having taken it into the king's hands because he believed that it was held in
chief. |
Oct. 28.
The Tower. |
To Richard de Wayte, escheator in cos. Wilts, Southampton, Oxford,
Berks, Bedford, and Buckingham. Order not to intermeddle further with
a messuage and 2 virgates of lands in Clyve near Neuchirch, and to restore
the issues thereof, as it is found by inquisition taken by the escheator that
William de la Clyve held the messuage and virgates at his death of the castle
of Caresbrok in the Isle of Wight, by the service of a fifteenth of a knight's
fee, and by the service of the sergeanty of finding a man at his charge for
forty days to keep the said castle in time of war, and by suit at the knights'
court of Neuport from three weeks to three weeks, the king having granted
the castle amongst other things to his son Edward, with all knights' fees,
advowsons of churches, and all other things pertaining thereto. |
Oct. 25.
The Tower. |
To Master John Walewayn, late escheator this side Trent. Order to
restore the issues of the manor of Wroxhale, co. Somerset, to those to whom
they belong, from the time when the manor was taken into the king's
hands, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the said escheator that
Ralph de Gorges held no lands of the king in chief at his death except a
third of the manor of Braunton, co. Devon, by the service of finding the
king an arrow when he came or sent to Exemore to take venison there, the
arrow to be delivered to the king's huntsman, but that he held the manor of
Wroxhale of Hugh de Courteneye by knight service, and it is found by an
inquisition afterwards taken by John Everard, escheator is cos. Cornwall,
Devon, Somerset, and Dorset, that Ralph held the manor of the said Hugh
by the service aforesaid and not of the king, whereupon the king ordered
the said John not to intermeddle further with the manor, which he had
taken into the king's hands by reason of Ralph's death, and to restore the
issues thereof. |
Oct. 29.
Westminster. |
To John de Lancastria, keeper of certain lands in the king's hands in co.
Lancaster. Order not to distrain the abbot of Whallay for fealty for his
lands in Staning' that he held in chief of the king as of the lands in his hands
by the forfeiture of Thomas, late earl of Lancaster, as he has done fealty. |
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To William de Tatham, keeper of certain forfeited lands in co. Lancaster.
Order not to distrain the aforesaid abbot for fealty for a moiety of the manor
of Bylinton, which he holds of the king in chief as of the lands in his hands
by the forfeiture of the aforesaid earl, as he has done homage. |
Oct. 30.
Westminster. |
To Roger de Gildesburgh, keeper of the lands of aliens in co. Buckingham, in the king's hands for certain reasons. Order to cause the prior of
Thikeford, who is in Roger's custody by the king's order, to be brought
before the justices of the Bench on the morrow of Martinmas next in order
to prosecute an assize concerning the advowson of a tenth of the chapel of
Gerdele, and to deliver to him necessary expenses from the priory, as the
prior has impleaded the prioress of Catesby concerning the advowson before
the justices aforesaid, and the prioress, who is the tenaut, has placed herself
upon the grand assize before the justices, and has prayed that recognition
may be made as to which of them has the greater right in the advowson,
wherefore the king has ordered the sheriff of Buckingham to cause twentyfour knights of the neighbourhood of Gerdele to come before the said
justices at Westminster on the morrow of Martinmas to make the recogni
tion of the grand assize aforesaid, the prior, who cannot come before the
justices on the said day without the king's special order, having prayed the
king to provide for his indemnity. By C. |
Oct. 27.
The Tower. |
To the bailiffs of the manor of Rysebergh. Order to permit the abbot of
Nottele, parson of the church of Rysebergh, to receive a tithe of the foals
foaled in Rysebergh park and of the money from the agistment of beasts
therein, as he and his predecessors have been wont to have, the late king
having, on 6 July, in the 33rd year of his reign, ordered the bailiffs of
queen Margaret, his consort, to whom he had assigned the manor and park, to
permit the abbot to receive the tithes aforesaid, because it was found by an
inquisition taken by the sheriff of Buckingham that the abbot and his predecessors, parsons of the said church, had been wont to receive such tithes
from time out of mind, as well in the time of Richard de Alemannia, late
earl of Cornwall, as in the time of Edmund, the late earl, until Person'
Lumbard and William Beausamys, keepers of the late king's stud after the
manor and park came to his hands after the death of Edmund, impeded the
abbot from receiving the said tithe. |
Nov. 4.
Westminster. |
To William de Weston, escheator in cos. Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Middlesex, and in the city of London. Order to deliver to Mary, late the wife of
Aymer de Valencia, earl of Pembroke, the houses in the city of London
where the earl's wardrobe was, which houses the earl bought from the bishop
of Chichester, together with the issues thereof from the time when they
were taken into the king's hands with the other lands of the earl upon the
death of the latter, as the earl bequeathed the said houses in his last will to
his wife, as appears by the inspection of his will, and she has prayed the
king to cause the houses to be delivered to her. By C. |
Oct. 30.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause Robert
de Rocheford, who is staying in the duchy [of Aquitaine] in the king's
service, to have respite until Easter next for all debts due from him to the
exchequer. |
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The like in favour of the following: |
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John de Haustede. |
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Edmund Haclut. |
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Richard Talbot. |
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Richard de Grey. |
Oct. 30.
Westminster. |
To Stephen de Haccomb and Nicholas Dauney. Order not to compel
the men of the port of Tegnemuth to contribute to the arms for certain
footmen to be chosen by Stephen and Nicholas in co. Devon by virtue of
the king's commission, as they have certain ships furnished with men and
other necessaries at their charge in the king's service in Gascony, as
W. bishop of Exeter, the treasurer, has testified, and Stephen and Nicholas
are compelling them to contribute to the said arms, wherefore they have
prayed the king for remedy, the king not wishing that they shall be charged
with a double charge, to wit by land and by sea. |
