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Membrane 11. |
Dec. 4.
Langley. |
To the treasurer and chamberlains. Order to pay to Robert de Emeldon,
chaplain of the king's chapel, 19l. 0s. 8d. if they find that the king is bound
to him in that sum for his wages of war and for his summer and winter
robe, in the 12th and 13th years of the reign respectively, by account made
with him at Andewerp on 1 November last, upon viewing a bill in his
possession under the seal of William de Northwell, keeper of the wardrobe. |
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By C. |
Dec. 3.
Langley. |
William Colyns, of Wyke, imprisoned at Rokyngham for trespass of
vert in the forest of Whittelwod, has the king's writ to Bartholomew de
Burgherssh, keeper of the Forest this side Trent, to bail him until the next
eyre of the Forest. |
Nov. 10.
Kennington. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer and to the chamberlains.
Robert de Swynnerton son and heir of Roger de Swynnerton the elder, has
besought the king, that whereas 92l. 6s. 4d. are exacted of Roger, to wit
100 marks delivered to him upon retaining men at arms in the king's
company and 25l. of the arrears of his fee and robes in accounts rendered by
him in the wardrobe, and divers sums are owing to Roger for the same
beyond that sum, and Robert is distrained for that sum in the lands which
belonged to Roger, the king will cause account to be made with him and
cause that sum to be allowed to him in the sums which are found to be
owing to Roger; the king therefore orders the treasurer and barons and
chamberlains to inspect the rolls and memoranda of the exchequer upon
the premises, to audit Robert's account and cause allowance to be made to
him as aforesaid, informing the king of the sums which are found to be due
to him beyond the said 92l. 6s. 4d. By C. |
Nov. 6.
Langley. |
To William de Wauton, sheriff of Essex. Order to pay to Giles de
Matryngham, the king's falconer, whom the king sent to stay in that
bailiwick with two falcons, the arrears of his wages of 12d. a day for
himself and 2d. a day for the puture of the falcons, from 1 May in the 12th
year of the reign, and to pay those wages henceforth, so long as he is
sheriff and as Giles remains in that bailiwick for the said cause, or
until further orders as the king sent a like order to the sheriff of that county,
and William has not hitherto cared to pay the said 14d. daily to Giles because
the said writ is in the possession of the sheriff. |
Dec. 6.
Langley. |
To Thomas de Metham, escheator beyond Trent. Order to cause dower
to be assigned to Margery late the wife of Robert de Clifford dil Newestede,
tenant in chief, upon her taking oath not to marry without the king's
licence. |
Nov. 25.
Langley. |
To the mayor and bailiffs of Bristol. Order to permit Thomas Blanket
and certain other burgesses of that town who wish to work cloth to keep
the instruments for weaving in their own houses and to keep workmen
there, provided that customs and other profits due to the king are paid to
him on such cloth, as it was ordained in the parliament at Westminster
that wool should be made into cloth in the realm and that all who wished
to make cloth in the realm should do so without hindrance, and now the
king has learned from Thomas and the others that whereas they caused
divers instruments for weaving cloth to be brought to their houses, and
also weavers and other workmen, by reason of that ordinance, the mayor
and bailiffs exact divers sums of money from them by reason of the making
and settting up of those instruments. [Fœdera.] |
Dec. 9.
Langley. |
To the mayor and bailiffs of the port of Sandwich. The merchants, masters
and mariners of certain ships of Bayonne, lately come to the realm, charged
with iron and other merchandise of weight have besought the king to
allow them to replace the iron in boats and small ships and take it
to London and Great Yarmouth or elsewhere in the realm, to do what they
please therewith, paying the custom due thereon at the places whither it is
brought, as they unloaded their ships at the port of Sandwich at the
request of William de Clynton, earl of Huntingdon, constable of Dover
castle and warden of the Cinque Ports and of William Trussel, admiral of
the fleet from the mouth of the Thames towards the west, to set out with
the said ships in the king's service for the defence of the realm, and the
masters and mariners have now granted they will so set out before Hilary
next or immediately after; the king considering the services of the men of
Bayonne to himself and his predecessors and the damage suffered by these
men in unlading their merchandise, orders the mayor and bailiffs to take
security from them that they will take the said merchandise to places where
the custom is collected and the coket seal kept, and that they will pay
custom and return before the setting out of the fleet, and to permit them
to take their merchandise as aforesaid. By C. |
Dec. 20.
Langley. |
To the collectors or collector of customs in the port of Sandwich. The
like order, mutatis mutandis, as the king has learned that they will not
permit those men to relade the said iron because the preceding order was
not directed to them. By C. |
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Membrane 10. |
Nov. 18.
Langley. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to allow 40s. a
sack on 68 sacks of wool taken from the port of London by Richard de
Hakeneye of London, to the collectors of customs in that port, if they made
such allowance to Richard in the custom and subsidy in accordance with
the king's order to them, in part satisfaction for 254l. 14d. due to him by
the king for his wool sent to parts beyond the sea and the king granted him
allowance for that sum in the custom and subsidy on his wool taken out of
that port after St. Peter ad Vincula in the 12th year of the reign under
the form contained in the letters patent concerning such allowances, and
after the ordinance of the council concerning such allowances, Richard
surrendered the letters patent and the king's writ of allowance to the
collectors of the custom of wool hides and wool-fells in that port to
chancery to be cancelled, beseeching the king that as he lent the king 500l.
in parts beyond the sea, in his great need, of which he has had no allowance, and has suffered great loss by reason of the detention thereof, to
grant him permission to take to the staple at Andewerp from that port
before Michaelmas as many sacks of wool whereon the custom and subsidy
would amount to 254l. 14d., the said custom and subsidy being allowed
to him, and the king granted this and ordered the said collectors to grant
him such allowance, in accordance with the ordinance, until he should be
satisfied for the 254l. 14d., and by virtue thereof Richard took 50 sacks
before Michaelmas last and 18 sacks after that feast from the port of
London to the said staple and received due allowance, as he says. By C. |
Dec. 3.
Langley. |
To the same. Order to account with John de Wyndesore and John de
Tunford, the king's clerks appointed to arrest all ships of 40 tuns burthen
and more in the Cinque Ports, and to cause them to be sent to
sea for the defence of the realm, provided with mariners, men and other
necessaries for war, granting them 6s. 8d. and 3s. 4d. a day respectively
for their wages, and to whom the king ordered the abbot of St. Augustine's
Canterbury, collector of the tenth and fifteenth granted by the laity and
the tenth granted by the clergy, to pay 20l. upon such wages, for the days
when they were in the said service, allowing them the said wages, and to
pay them what is found to be due to them beyond the said 20l., provided
that they shall answer for the excess if their wages do not amount to 20l. |
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By C. |
Dec. 13.
Langley. |
To William Trussel, escheator this side Trent. Order to cause Thomas
son and heir of Gilbert de Borhunt, tenant in chief, to have seisin of all
the lands of which his father was seised, at his death, in his demesne as of
fee, because he has proved his age before the escheator and the king has
taken his homage for the said lands and has given him respite for his
homage until the Purification next, unless the king return from parts
beyond the sea in the mean time. By the keeper and C. |
Dec. 15.
Langley. |
To the same. Order to permit brother Nicholas Carde to have the
custody of all the lands of the abbot of Preaux in England, which the
king committed to him for rendering 100l. yearly, as the king has learned
that the escheator intends to amove him from that custody, pretending
that the abbot has died in parts beyond the sea. |
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The like to Ralph de Middelnye, escheator in cos. Cornwall, Devon,
Somerset and Dorset. |
Nov. 28.
Langley. |
Richard son of Richard le Clerk of Gedelyng, imprisoned at Notingham
for trespass of venison in Shirewode forest, has a writ to Ralph de Nevill,
keeper of the Forest beyond Trent, or to him who supplies his place in
Shirewode forest, to bail him until the next eyre. |
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John de Leverton of Gedelyng has a like writ. |
Dec. 18.
Langley. |
To the sheriff of Wilts. Order to find the following daily wages from
the time of the death of Thomas de Borhunt, late the king's huntsman,
until the king's return to England for a veutrer, 2d., a berner, 1½d., and a
cacheken, 1d., keeping 16 buckhounds (damericiis) and 6 greyhounds of the
king's dogs in Thomas's custody, and for the puture of those dogs. |
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By letter of the keeper. |
Dec. 17.
Langley. |
To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides and wool-fells in the port
of London. Whereas the king ordered them to permit Baudinus de
Bonacourse, Marinus Baldewynet, merchants of Florence, and Arnald de
Aldyngham, merchant of Malyns, to take 300 sacks of wool of 650 sacks to
Brabant and Flanders, allowing them the custom and subsidy due thereon
in part payment of 1,300 florins [as at page 198 above], the king, considering that the merchants lent that sum to him of their free will in his
great necessity, orders the collectors to permit those merchants to take the
remaining 350 sacks in the same manner in ships not ordained for the
king's service. By p.s. [12486.] |
Dec. 20.
Langley. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer and to the chamberlains.
Order to account with Nicholas de la Beche, constable of the Tower of
London, for the wages of twenty men-at-arms and fifty archers, whom the
king ordered him to place in the Tower for its safe custody, and to allow
him reasonable wages for those men for the time that they have stayed in
the Tower and to pay him what they find to be due to him, as the king
ordered the treasurer and chamberlains to pay wages to the said men for
the time they shall stay in the castle, whereof they have hitherto done
nothing, as the king has learned. By C. |
