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July 28. Kennington. |
To the collectors of customs in the port of Boston. Order not to permit
any wool or other merchandise on which custom and subsidy ought to be
paid, to be taken from that port or from other places of their districts before
the arrival of the lieges appointed to enquire concerning the same and to
make scrutiny thereof, knowing that if they are not diligent and vigilant in
doing this the king will cause them to be punished as abetting those who
evade the order, as certain lieges testified in the parliament held at
Westminster on Wednesday after the Translation of St. Thomas last that
divers merchants and others, notwithstanding the proclamations and
prohibitions of the king have laded no small quantity of wool and merchandise,
not customed or coketted, in that port and other places, defrauding the
king of the custom and subsidy due thereon, wherefore the king has
appointed certain lieges to take inquisition by the oath of men of those
parts of the names of the merchants and others, and of the masters and
mariners of ships who laded wool and merchandise not customed or coketted
in that port and took them to parts beyond the sea, and at what time, to
wit after the king's first passage to Brabant, and concerning the wool and
who took it and to do certain other things contained in their commission,
and to certify the king fully concerning the premises. |
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By the keeper and C. |
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The like to the collectors of customs in the following ports, to wit:— |
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Newcastle-upon-Tyne. |
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Hertilpol. |
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York. |
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Kyngeston-upon-Hull. |
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Lenne. |
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Great Yarmouth. |
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Ipswich. |
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Sandwich. |
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Southampton. |
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Chichester. |
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Bristol. |
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London. |
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Exeter. |
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Melcombe and Weymuth. |
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Enrolment of release by Richard de Lorty, brother of Sir John de Lorty,
knight, to Sir John de Molyns, knight, of all his right and claim in the
manors of Coklyngton, Stoke Tristre and Boyford, co. Somerset, and in the
advowsons of the churches of the manors of Coklyngton and Stoke Tristre.
Witnesses: Sir John Inge, Sir Walter de Rodeneye, Sir Thomas de
Marleberge, knights, Henry Power, John de Oxon[ia] of London, William
de Carleton, Simon de Turnham, Richard Pynnore, fishmonger, John de
Aulton, Thomas de Shene of London. Dated at London on 30 July,
14 Edward III. |
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Memorandum that Richard came into chancery at London on 2 August
and acknowledged the preceding deed. |
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Enrolment of grant by Richard de Lorty, executor of the will of Sir John
de Lorty, to Sir John de Molyns, knight, of all the goods and chattels,
growing corn, hay, beasts, and other things taken by Sir John de Molyns
and his people in the manors of Coklyngton, Stoke Tristre and Boyford, co.
Somerset, from the day that Sir John de Lorty died, with release to Sir
John de Molyns of all right which he has in the said goods and chattels and
a general release. Dated at London on 3 August, 14 Edward III. French. |
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Memorandum that Richard came into chancery on 2 August and acknowledged the preceding deed. |
Aug. 7. Berkhampstead. |
Robert de Hambury, parson of Stok church, diocese of Worcester,
acknowledges that he owes to Thomas de Capenhurst, clerk, 4l. 5s.; to be
levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels and ecclesiastical
goods in co. Worcester. |
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Cancelled on payment. |
July 29. Kennington. |
To John Daune, Robert Beaupel, sheriff of Cornwall and William Shaumbornoun. Order to supersede the taking of John Lercedekene and the
further execution of their appointment, by a mainprise, as although the
king learning that John was notoriously suspect of certain felonies and
misdeeds, appointed them to arrest him in accordance with the form of the
ordinance and agreement lately made in the parliament at Westminster, to
take him to the Tower of London, and cause him to be detained in prison
there by the constable until further order, yet Thomas de Ferrar[iis], knight
of co. Leicester, has mainperned before the king in chancery to have John
before the king or his justices to answer for any felonies, misdeeds and
excesses if he is accused or appealed therefor, whenever he is warned upon
this and that he will behave well. By C. |
July 28. Kennington. |
To R. bishop of Durham. The merchants and mariners of Lescluse in
Flanders have besought the king to order the release of Clays son of Clays
and of a ship of that town called 'la Madeleyne' and the goods and chattels
therein, as the ship, of which Nancier Subbel and Clays are masters, was
lately taken at sea by the king's enemies of the town of Caleys who
freighted the ship to take certain persons to Scotland, against the wish of
the masters and mariners, whose lives were spared for this cause, and the
ship was taken while sailing by the sea coast towards the said parts by men
and mariners of England near Berwick upon Tweed, and Clays is detained
in Norham Castle by Robert de Maners, the constable there, and the ship
and the goods and chattels of the masters and mariners therein are arrested
by the bishop's ministers in Halieland; the king therefore orders the
bishop to take an inquisition on the matter and if he finds that Clays, the
ship, goods and chattels are detained as aforesaid, then he shall cause them
to be released without delay, and shall so behave in the matter that the
merchants and lawful men of Flanders shall be contented and that the
complaint be not repeated to the king. By p.s. |