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May 3.
Berkhampstead. |
To Thomas de Foxle, constable of Wyndesore castle. Order to deliver
to John de Broghton, to whom the late king committed the custody of the
gate of Wyndesore park and of the manor there, for life, receiving as much
as Laurence de Bagshote received in the same, the arrears of what John
was wont to receive, and to pay what he received henceforth, so long as he
is keeper and Thomas is constable. |
April 26.
Berkhampstead. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas the king
ordered Roger de Grey and others, appointed justices of oyer and terminer
in co. Bedford, to cause the issues returned upon the abbot of Rameseye and
the amercements of the abbot, Richard his brother and John Baron to be
withdrawn from the rolls and cancelled, acquitting the abbot and others
of the said issues and amercements saving to the king the amercement of
Thomas de Stodleye the elder [as in this Calendar 11 Edward III, page
12], yet the justices delivered the issues and amercements in extracts of
their rolls at the exchequer, wherefore they are exacted of the abbot by
summons of the exchequer, the king therefore orders the treasurer and
barons to cause the amercements to be cancelled, discharging the abbot
and others but saving the amercement of Thomas. By pet. of C. |
May 7.
Berkhampstead. |
To the same. Order to cause allowance to be made to Alan la Zousche,
son and heir of William la Zousche, of Assheby in the debts in which William
was bound to the king at his death, what is found to be due to William of his
fee of 200 marks for the custody of the land of Glamorgan and Morganno,
which the king committed to him on 24 February in the 1st year of his
reign, to hold during pleasure, so that he should appoint the sheriff,
constable, and other ministers there, and should dispose of the castles,
towns, and manors for the king's benefit, and the safe keeping thereof,
receiving 200 marks in time of peace, and for thirty men at arms in his
company for the siege of Kaerfilly castle, if it was not then surrendered, at
the king's accustomed wages; and afterwards on 12 June in the same year,
the king ordered William to deliver the custody to Roger de Mortuo Mari,
to whom he had committed it; and Alan has besought the king to order
such allowance to be made to him, as divers debts in which William was
bound to the king are exacted of him. By C. |
May 7.
Berkhampstead. |
To the abbot of St. Mary's, York, collector of the triennial tenth granted
by the clergy in the archbishopric of York. Order to pay to Thomas
Ughtred, keeper of the town of Perth, by indenture, the 26l. which the
king ordained to be paid to him for the munition of the town and the
maintenance of the lieges there in its defence. By the keeper and C. |
May 4.
Berkhampstead. |
To Thomas de Castro Goderici, chamberlain of South Wales. Order to
pay to Gilbert Talebot, to whom on 23 October, in the 4th year of the
reign, the king committed the office of justice of South Wales, to hold
during pleasure, the arrears of his fee, and to pay that fee henceforth so
long as he holds the office and Thomas is chambertain. |
May 12.
Berkhampstead. |
To the sheriff of Rutland. Order to cause a coroner for that county to
be elected in place of William de Glaston, deceased. |
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April 26.
Berkhampstead. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to supersede the
demand made on William de Melton, archbishop of York, by reason of the
manors of Killum, co. York, and Kyngesclere, for the tenth now current or
other quotas granted by the clergy, though the king wishes him to be taxed
by reason of those manors with the laity of cos. York and Southampton,
as the manors are held of the king in chief, in frankalmoin, and the archbishop was enfeoffed of the former by the archbishop of Rouen and the dean
and chapter there, as is found by an inquisition taken by John de Louthere,
sometime escheator in cos. York, Cumberland, Northumberland and Westmorland, rendering 13s. 4d. yearly to the king, and of the latter by the
same, as is found by inquisition taken by Robert Selyman, sometime
escheator in cos. Southampton, Wilts, Oxford, Berks, Bedford and Buckingham, rendering 10s. yearly. By C. |
May 8.
Berkhampstead. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer and to the chamberlains.
Order to account with Master William de Hurle, chief carpenter of the
Tower of London, for money received by him upon his expenses for carrying a certain great engine from the tower to Dumbar castle, in Scotland,
allowing him the reasonable expenses of himself and the men with him and
other necessary expenses. By C. |
May 5.
Berkhampstead. |
To William Trussel, escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to Alesia
late the wife of Ebulo Lestraunge, the lands which were taken into the
king's hands on the death of Alice late the wife of William de Stopham, as
the king granted to Ebulo and Alesia for Ebulo's good service, and in
exchange for a release which they made to him of all their right and claim
in the lands of Alesia's inheritance which she gave to the late king and to
Hugh le Despenser the elder, and Hugh le Despenser the younger, while she
was single, and which escheated to the king by the forfeiture of Hugh and
Hugh, the manor of Wadyngton, co. Lincoln, after Alice's death, who held
it for life with reversion to the king; and afterwards on its being found by
the inquisition post mortem of Alice that she held no lands in chief in her
demesne or of fee, but that she held lands in Wadyngton for life of the gift
and emfeoffment of Henry de Lacy, earl of Lincoln, with reversion to the
king, and that the king granted those lands to Ebulo and Alesia, and that
they are held in chief by knight's service, at the suit of Alesia beseeching
the king to cause the said lands to be delivered to her, as they are the
manor of Wadyngton, the king ordered the escheator to take an inquisition
upon the matter, by which it is found that the said lands are the manor of
Wadyngton, and that Alice held no other lands in Wadyngton for life as
aforesaid. |
May 8.
Berkhampstead. |
To the collectors of customs in the port of Kyngeston upon Hull. Order
to cause the custom and subsidy to be allowed to Robert Stuffyn of
Newerk on his wool taken from that port, according to the ordinance of
the council, until 50l. are allowed to him, receiving from him the customary
oath, as the king received wool of him to the value of 1,571l. 14s. 4d. and
he has asserted in chancery that of that sum there are due to Henry Mous
of Newerk 200l. and to William Daraunt of Newerk 120l. and the remaining 1,251l. 14s. 4d. are due to Robert, and on 12 May last the king granted
that Robert should have allowance for 400l. of that sum in the custom
and subsidy in the ports of Kyngston-upon-Hull and Boston and caused
letters obligatory for the remaining 851l. 14s. 4d. to be made to Robert;
and Robert surrendered the letters of allowance to chancery to be cancelled
and besought the king to order payment of 300l. to be made to him at
Michaelmas next, and the remaining 100l. to be allowed to him in the custom
and subsidy, and the king granted that he should have allowance for 50l.
in that port. |
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The like to the collectors of customs in the port of Boston, for 50l. |
May 6.
Berkhampstead. |
To William Trussel, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with a messuage and 30 acres of land in Bynham, co.
Norfolk, restoring the issues thereof to the prior of Bynham, as the
escheator returned that he had taken the premises into the king's hands,
because it was found by inquisition of office that the prior appropriated
them to himself and his house, of Richard de Tukke, after the statute of
mortmain, without licence; and afterwards the king learned from the
prior that he and his predecessors were seised thereof from the foundation
of the priory, and the king ordered the escheator to take an inquisition
upon the matter, by which it is found that the priors were seised of the
said tenements from the time of the foundation of the priory, until 14
January, in the 11th year of the reign, when the escheator took them, and
that the prior did not appropriate them anew, and that they are held in
frank almoin. |
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April 22.
Berkhampstead. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer and to the chamberlains.
Order to cause payment or an assignment to be made to Thomas de
Kele, of Lincoln, for 250l. for Easter term last, as the king is bound to him
in 820l. 22d. for his wool sent to parts beyond the sea, and he afterwards
asserted in chancery that 322l. 22d. were due to Richard de Kele, of
Lincoln, for such wool, and the remaining 500l. to himself, and he has
besought the king to order satisfaction to be done to him, and the king
has granted that he shall have one half at Easter and the other half at
Easter following. |
April 6.
Berkhampstead. |
To John de Wodehous, keeper of the hanaper. Order to pay to Master
John de Thoresby, now acting as notary in chancery, or to his attorney, 20
marks for Easter term last, in accordance with the king's grant to him of 40
marks yearly until he shall be provided with a benefice exceeding the said
sum and the value of the benefices which he now holds. |
April 20.
Berkhampstead. |
To John de Warenna, earl of Surrey, and his fellows, keepers of the
maritime land in co. Sussex. Order to supersede the exaction made on the
prior of Bermoundeseye to find men at arms or other armed men by reason
of his lands in that county, as he has shown the king that although his
priory was taken into the king's hands as an alien priory, and the prior
holds the custody thereof at will for rendering a certain ferm yearly, yet
the deputies appointed by the keepers distrain him to find four men at
arms, armed men, and archers, by reason of his lands in that county,
pretending that he and his predecessors had supported such charges,
wherefore the prior has asserted before the council that he now pays in the
aforesaid ferm the greater part of the sum which was formerly paid for
such custody, and the king discharged him of such custody. By C. |
April 28.
Berkhampstead. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to discharge John
de la Roche of 5 marks yearly beyond what John de Canygges gave for
the office of the bedelry of the hundreds of Rouborwe, Swanborwe, and
Stodefold, co. Wilts, receiving from him as much as John de Canygges was
wont to render, as on 5 December, in the 3rd year of the reign, the king
committed that office to John de la Roche to hold for seven years,
rendering what John de Canygges who held that office rendered then, and
afterwards the king committed the custody to him for life, rendering the
same, and now he has informed the king that although he is prepared
to render as much as John rendered, yet the treasurer and barons exact 5
marks yearly in addition because the extracts of the chancery roll of the
3rd year contain that John de la Roche should render 5 marks yearly in
addition, whereupon he has besought the king to provide a remedy. |
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By C. |
May 4.
Berkhampstead. |
To the sheriff of Berks. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be
elected in place of William Broun, deceased. |
May 4.
Berkhampstead. |
To the taxers and collectors of the triennial tenth and fifteenth in the city
of London. Order to allow to John de Oxon[ia], of London, vintner, in his
quota of that subsidy 20l. if he be found to have paid that sum by the
certificate of John de Pulteneye, sometime mayor of London, and Thomas
de Evesham, clerk, deputed to seek a subsidy of the men of that city for
the defence of the realm, as John asserts that he paid 20l. to the king
before John and Thomas and others deputed for that purpose. By C. |
May 3.
Berkhampstead. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause a tun of
the wine which John, bishop of Carlisle, and a tun which Ranulph de Dacre
delivered to the treasurer, to be allowed to the executors of the will of John
de Glenton, late receiver of the king's victuals at Carlisle, in their account
rendered for John, notwithstanding that the executors did not deliver the
king's writ of warrant for that livery, to the treasurer and barons, upon
that account. By the keeper. |
May 7.
Berkhampstead. |
To the abbot of St. Mary's, York, collector in the archbishopric of York
of the triennial tenth granted by the clergy. Order to pay to Thomas
Ughtred, keeper of the town of Perth, those 100 marks which the king
ordered the abbot to pay to him for the munition of the town and maintenance
of the lieges staying there for its defence. By the keeper and C. |
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The like to the collectors of the triennial tenth granted by the laity in
Newcastle upon Tyne, to pay 100 marks to Thomas. |
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By the keeper and C. |
May 4.
Berkhampstead. |
To the collectors of wool granted by prelates and men of religion in the
archdeaconry of Hereford. Order to supersede the demand made upon the
abbot of St. Peter's, Gloucester, for wool beyond the rate of the portion of the
fifteenth, unless he has newly acquired any temporalities or spiritualities, for
which he is bound to pay the tenth granted by the clergy, receiving wool from
him according to the rate of the fifteenth of 68l. 10s. 9d., touching him, as
the treasurer and barons returned that the temporalities and moveables of
the abbot in the said archdeaconry were taxed at the said sum at the
tenth granted by the clergy, and his temporalities at 61l. 19s. 1d. and his
moveables at 6l. 11s. 8d. and the king has learned from the abbot's plaint
that the collectors compel him to pay beyond the said portion of the
fifteenth, although he paid the tenth with the clergy according to the taxation
and has satisfied the king for wool according to the rate of the fifteenth. |
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April 26.
Berkhampstead. |
To the justices of the Bench. Order to proceed in a plea between
William son of John de Trayly, and John de Haudlo for the manor of
Lutegareshale, and to do justice to the parties, as John pleading
in that suit before the justices of the Bench alleged that he held
the manor for life by the grant of Hugh le Despenser with reversion
by the king, owing to Hugh's forfeiture, and he could not answer
William without consulting the king, wherefore the justices delayed to
proceed in the plea, and the king sent a writ of certiorari thereupon to the
treasurer and barons of the exchequer, who returned that they found
nothing touching that matter in their records, and the king ordered the
justices to proceed further in the plea, and afterwards on 21 October, in the
9th year of the reign, the king granted the reversion of the manor after
John's death to John de Molyns, and the affair is still pending
before the justices, wherefore Walter has besought the king to provide
a remedy. |
March 17.
Berkhampstead. |
To the collectors of customs in the port of Bristol. Repetition of a
previous order [as at page 70 above] to permit the merchants of the
societies of the Bardi and Peruzzi to take 850 sacks of wool from that port
to Lombardy. By C. |
April 18.
Berkhampstead. |
To the treasurer and chamberlains. Order to pay to John Bussins,
merchant of Plesence, in Lombardy, 50l. at which the rigging and tackle
of a ship of his called 'la Seinte Marie,' of Port, in Portugal, are extended, as
they were taken by the mayor and bailiffs of Wynchelse and others to
supply a galley of the king at Wynchelse. By C. |
May 8.
Berkhampstead. |
To the abbot of Abyndon. Order to deliver to Nicholas Usus Maris,
constable of Bordeaux, or to Anthony Bache in his name, 40 sacks of the
king's wool in full satisfaction of 100 sacks of wool, of the 1,000 sacks which
the king granted to him to take to parts beyond, paying 40s. a sack for the
custom and subsidy, from the ports of London and Southampton, 100 sacks
of the king's gift and 900 for the king's affairs, and Nicholas surrendered
the writs to chancery to be cancelled, and the king ordered the collectors of
customs in the port of London to deliver 60 sacks of the 100 to him of the
wool collected for the king in cos. Oxford and Berks, and the king wishes
him to be satisfied for the residue of the 100 sacks. By C. |
May 3.
Berkhampstead. |
To the collectors of customs in the port of Boston. Order to deliver to
William de la Pole, or his attorneys, 246 sacks 7 stones of wool, by indenture, of the 2,418 sacks 10 stones which the king assigned to him, according
to a previous order which they have not hitherto obeyed. By C. |
May 1.
Berkhampstead. |
To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides, and wool-fells in the port
of London. Repetition of previous order to permit William to take to the
staple at Andewerp 60 sacks of wool on which Geoffrey de Astwyk had paid
custom and subsidy to him, without paying the custom and subsidy. |
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By C. |
May 7.
Berkhampstead. |
To the treasurer and chamberlains. Order to cause payment or an
assignment to be made to the thirty-six scholars whom the king maintains
by his alms in his hall at Cambridge for such sum in arrear for their
robes, from Christmas last, as Thomas Crosse, keeper of the great wardrobe,
shall be found to be charged for the last livery of robes to them, by a bill
under his seal said to be at the exchequer. By C. |
April 25.
Berkhampstead. |
To the sheriff of Somerset and the other receivers of wool in that county.
Order to cause all the king's wool at Welles to be brought without delay
to the port of Bristol, and delivered to the collectors there, in accordance
with a previous order, as the king has learned that there was none of his
wool at Bristol, wherefor the receivers could not execute the previous
order. By C. |
May 10.
Berkhampstead. |
To the collectors of customs in the port of Bristol. Order to cause
4 sacks of wool remaining of 200 sacks which the king destined for
Gascony, and any other sacks remaining, to be laded without delay and
delivered to Adam de Hyndeleye and Anthony Bache, or to Luke Bache,
his attorney, to be taken to the said parts. By C. |
May 12.
Berkhampstead. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause the
sheriff of York, Henry de Belton and Henry de Scorby, receivers of the
king's wool in the North and West Ridings, co. York, to have allowance of
71 sacks 18 stones of wool, if they are found to have delivered them, by
the king's order, to Ralph de Nevyll, who agreed to lend the king all his
wool at his manor of Faxflete. |
May 10.
Berkhampstead. |
To the same. Order to cause allowance to be made to the executors of
the will of John de Glanton, late receiver of the king's victuals at Carlisle,
for a tun of flour and a tun of wine which he delivered by the order of
Thomas de Bello Campo, earl of Warwick, then captain of the king's
army sent to Scotland, and a tun of wine delivered to Patrick Makolough,
and a tun to Robert le Mareschal, as appears by the earl's letters patent
in the possession of the executors, as they assert. By C. |
May 10.
Berkhampstead. |
To the collectors of customs in the port of Kyngeston-upon-Hull.
Order to deliver to William de la Pole or his attorneys what is lacking
of the wool which the king assigned to him, to be taken to the king to
parts beyond the sea, permitting him to do this without paying the
custom and subsidy due thereon. By C. |
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May 3.
Berkhampstead. |
To the treasurer and chamberlains. Order to pay to Edward, king
of Scotland, 30s. a day in time of peace and 50s. in time of war, according
to the king's ordnance, by the advice of the council, delivering it to John
de Conscliff in the king's name. By C. |
April 10.
Berkhampstead. |
To Robert atte Barre. Order to cause the springalds, quarrels, breast
plates, lances, arbalests, bows and arrows necessary for supplying the town
of Southampton to be bought. By C. |
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Vacated because another writ to provide the like is directed to John de Flete
as appears below, and the order to Robert is vacated because it was
surrendered. |
May 3.
Berkhampstead. |
To the treasurer and chamberlains. Order to pay to Robert 37l. 6s. 4¼d.
which he spent in buying the said springalds, etc. as the king is informed,
by virtue of the preceding order. |
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Vacated as above. |
May 1.
Berkhampstead. |
To the same. Order to pay to John de Weston 20l., which the king
granted to him for staying in the Isle of Wight for its defence, with twenty
men-at-arms for no small time. By C. |
April 26.
Berkhampstead. |
To the prior of St. Swithin's, Winchester, collector in the diocese of
Winchester of the wool granted in the parliament at Westminster in the
12th year of the reign. Order to deliver all the wool received by him to
the collectors of the king's wool in co. Southampton, by indenture, without
delay. By the keeper. |
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Order to the collectors to receive the wool from the prior and take it to
London. |
April 28.
Berkhampstead. |
To the treasurer and chamberlains. Order to cause payment or assignment to be made to Anthony Bache in the name of Ivo de Aldeburgh,
knight, for 376l. 6s. 8d. in which the late king was bound to him for the
arrears of his wages, and those of his esquires for replacing his horses and
for victuals bought from him, by account made with him in the late king's
chamber at Berwick-upon-Tweed, as may fully appear by a bill under the
seal of the office of the chamber of Scotland of that time; and the king
has considered that Anthony, who is prosecuting the affair, has granted
him a great sum for his affairs. By C. |
May 8.
Berkhampstead. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to revoke
assignments made upon the priory of Horton, co. Kent, a cell of the priory
of Lewes, and permit the prior to hold the priory and lands without
rendering any ferm to the king as an alien, provided that he answer for
any other ferms which he may owe, as he has shown the king that he is an
Englishman, and neither he nor his predecessors have been bound to
make any apportum, tax or service to any religious house in parts
beyond the sea, and the priory has never been taken into the hands
of the kings as alien in past times, and it has been so taken by the
king's order, and the king ordered the sheriff of Kent to take an inquisition upon the matter, by which it is found that William de Warenna
son of John de Warenna, earl of Surrey, then prior, was born in England
in Conesburgh Castle, co. York, and no priors had made any apportum, tax
or service to any religious house beyond the sea, wherefore the king ordered
the sheriff not to intermeddle further with the priory, and now the king
has learned that the treasurer and barons aggrieve the prior, pretending
that he ought to render a ferm for the priory, and have made assignments
upon the prior for that ferm to divers persons, whereupon the prior has
besought the king to provide a remedy. |
May 10.
Berkhampstead. |
To the sheriff of Cambridge and Huntingdon. Order to cause six oaks in
the forest of Sappele near Huntingdon and 4 oaks in the park of Hundon,
which Queen Philippa and Elizabeth de Burgo respectively have given for
repairing the houses of the scholars whom the king maintains at Cambridge,
to be cut down and sent to Cambridge to be delivered to Master Thomas
Powys, master of the said scholars, who is charged with the said repairs. |
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By C. |
May 10.
Berkhampstead. |
To the sheriff of Kent. Order to deliver 30 falchions, 300 sickles and
100 small axes which the king ordered him to buy, to Richard Felle and
John de Orton, by indenture, to be taken to the king to parts beyond the
sea, although the king lately ordered the sheriff to deliver them to William
de Walyngford, receiver of the king's victuals. By C. |
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Order to Richard and John to receive the falchions and other things as
aforesaid. |
May 8.
Berkhampstead. |
To Hugh de Ulceby, the king's butler, or to him who supplies his place
in the port of London. Order to deliver two tuns of wine to Edmund de
la Beche, who is staying in Southampton for its safe custody, by the king's
order. By C. |
April 20.
Berkhampstead. |
To John de Flete, keeper of the king's armour in the Tower of London.
Order to cause springales, quarrels, breastplates, lances, arbalests, bows and
arrows necessary for the munition of Southampton to be bought without delay and delivered to Robert atte Barre, receiver of the king's money and
victuals at that town. By C. |
May 12.
Berkhampstead. |
Order to Robert to receive the springalds, etc. from John. By C. |
May 10.
Berkhampstead. |
To the treasurer and chamberlains. Order to pay to John de Flete 39l.
19s. 6¼d., which he has expended in buying springalds, etc. by virtue of
the preceding order. By C. |
May 12.
Berkhampstead. |
To the collectors of customs in the port of Lenne. Order to cause 146
sacks 47 cloves of wool lent to the king by the merchants of the societies of
the Bardi and Peruzzi to be laded in that port, without delay, to be taken to
the king to parts beyond the sea, in the present fleet about to set out
thither, and to pay the costs of lading and freighting the ships, notwithstanding the king's order to them to deliver the customs and subsidies to
William de la Pole or his attorneys, as the said merchants lent the king 93
sacks 24 cloves of wool which he ordered to be delivered to them of his
wool of co. Huntingdon, for an equal quantity of wool of co. Buckingham
lately lent by them in the port of London, and those 53 sacks 23 cloves of
wool of co. Cambridge, which they now have in the port of Lenne, and the
king ordered the merchants to deliver that wool to John Charneles, his
clerk, to be taken as aforesaid. By C. |
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Mandate in pursuance to the merchants. |
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Mandate to John to receive the wool from the merchants. |
May 10.
Berkhampstead. |
To the treasurer and chamberlains. Order to pay to William de Skelton
20l. (sic) 13s. 11¾d. if the king is found to be bound to him in 11l.
13s. 11¾d. for his wages, &c. allowed in the roll of the Marshalsea and for
his robes between the last day of August in the 11th year of the reign and
11 July following and for his wages of war and his expenses on divers
voyages made at the same time, as may fully appear, he says, by a bill in
his possession, under the seal of Edmund de la Beche, late keeper of the
wardrobe. |
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April 8.
Berkhampstead. |
To the collectors of the new custom in the port of London. Order to
deliver to the merchants of the society of the Bardi all the issues of that
custom from Easter last for a year, the seal for that custom remaining in
their custody, as the king has granted the merchants all the customs and
the subsidy in that port for the said time according to an agreement made
with them, by indenture. |
May 18.
Berkhampstead. |
To the constable and other men of Skylyngton. Order to deliver to
Eleanor de Bello Monte the goods and chattels which belonged to Ralph de
Skylyngton and Nicholas his brother, which were forfeited because they
withdrew on being indicted of the death of Robert de Barkeworth in co.
Lincoln, and which the king granted to her, ordering the sheriff of Lincoln
and the coroners there to deliver to her the said goods and chattels together with the year, day and waste thereof, and now the king has learned
that these are in the hands of the constable and men, to be kept for his use. |
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By p.s. |
May 10.
Berkhampstead. |
To the collectors of customs in the port of Bristol. Order to permit the
merchants of the Peruzzi to take from that port to Lombardy, without paying custom and subsidy, 1,000 sacks of wool remaining of 8,000 sacks which
the king granted that they and the merchants of the society of the Bardi
should so take. By p.s. |
May 10.
Berkhampstead. |
To the treasurer and chamberlains. Order to give payment or an assignment to John de Portenar[iis], Andrew de Portenar[iis], Bartholomew de
Portenar[iis] and Pigellus de Portenar[iis], merchants, for 6,000l. remaining
of 8,072l. 10s. which the king received from them on loan, whereof he
granted them 2,072l. 10s. in the custom and subsidy on 691 sacks of their
wool which they should take out of the realm, charging Master Paul de
Monte Florum with all the aforesaid sum. By p.s. |
May 10.
Berkhampstead. |
To the collectors of customs in the port of Bristol. Order to permit
John de Rioun and his fellows, merchants of Bayonne, to take 51 sacks
2 cloves of wool from that port to Bayonne without paying custom and
subsidy thereon, in accordance with a former order [as at page 69 above],
which the collectors have neglected to obey by reason of the grant of those
customs to William de la Pole, the king's merchant, but the said wool is of
the king's own wool on which no custom or subsidy is due. By C. |
May 10.
Berkhampstead. |
To the collectors of customs in the port of Kyngeston upon Hull.
Order to permit wool on which the custom and subsidy amount to 500l. to
cross from that port to the staple at Andewerp, causing the king's letters
of 'coket' to be made for the merchants to whom the wool belonged, if
the attorneys of William de la Pole refuse to affix the part of the coket
seal in their custody, not permitting the attorneys or other merchants to
take any wool by letters of warrant under the half of the seal from that
port until the queen is satisfied, as the king ordered the collectors to
make such allowance of 500l. to Queen Isabella [as at page 12 above] and
the king has learned that the attorneys of William de la Pole refuse to
give up their half of the coket seal for sealing such letters, unless the
custom and subsidy are paid to William, and the queen had this allowance
long before the custom and subsidy were granted to William. By p.s. |
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The like to the collectors of customs in the port of Boston. |
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By the same writ. |
May 20.
Berkhampstead. |
To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides, and wool-fells in the
port of London. Order to permit Thomas de Baddeby, the king's clerk,
to take 6 sacks 11⅓ stones of wool from that port to the staple at Andewerp
without paying the custom and subsidy, allowing them in full payment
of 12l. 17s. 8d. in which the king is bound to him for the time when he
was in his service in Scotland and England, as may appear by two bills,
in Thomas's possession, under the seals of Edmund de la Beche and
William de Northwell respectively, the late and the present keepers of the
wardrobe. By C. |
May 20.
Berkhampstead. |
To the attorney in the port of Newcastle upon Tyne of William de la
Pole, the king's merchant. Whereas the king lately ordered the collectors
of customs there, by writ of privy seal, to permit Hugh de Appelby of
Newcastle to take 12 sacks of wool from that port to the staple at
Andewerp, paying the custom and subsidy to William de Northwell, keeper
of the wardrobe, and although Hugh paid these in parts beyond the sea
and has shown the attorney William's letters patent testifying this, yet the
attorney does not permit him to take the sacks, by reason of the grant of
the custom and subsidy made afterwards to William de la Pole, unless he
pay 24l. for custom and subsidy to the said William, the king therefore
orders the attorney to view the writ to the collectors and if he find that
it was before the date of the commission to William de la Pole, then to
restore to Hugh, without delay, the letters obligatory for 24l. made to
William by Hugh. By C. |
