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June 18.
Woodstock. |
To Thomas de Metham and William de Lound, guardians of the
temporalities of the archbishopric of York during the voidance. Order
not to distrain Matthew son of Herbert for his fealty as he has done fealty
for the lands which he holds of the king and of the said archbishopric
which is now in the king's hand. |
June 8.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to audit the
account of Thomas de Hampton, to whom on 20 March in the 15th year of
the reign the king committed the custody of the islands of Gernereye,
Gereseye, Serk and Aureneye to hold as William de Monte Acuto and
Henry de Ferrar[iis] previously held it, for what he could levy of that
custody from the time of his commission and for his costs and expenses
upon the safe custody of the islands and works carried out there by him,
and for his wages and those of his men for the munition of the islands, and
further to do what pertains to the final issue of the account if they find
that he has not been able to levy so much as William and Henry by reason
of the war with France, whereby, as he asserts, the islands are wasted and
are partly occupied by the king's enemies, and the money there is depreciated for a third part, and yet the treasurer and barons have charged him
for as much as William and Henry, who held the custody in time of peace.
[Fœdera.] By K. and C. |
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Membrane 9. |
May 25.
Westminster. |
To the receivers of the portion of the 20,000 sacks of wool for the past
year to be levied in the East Riding, co. York. Order to deliver all the
wool received by them to William de Shirburn, burgess of York, by indenture without delay, certifying the king of the quantity so delivered, as the
king has sold to William 130 sacks 20 cloves of the quantity of the 20,000
sacks to be levied in the East and North Ridings in that county, at
6l. 6s. 8d. the sack. By bill of the treasurer. |
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The like to the receivers of wool in the North Riding, co. York. |
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To the assessors and collectors of the portion of the 20,000 sacks of wool
for the past year in the East Riding, co. York. Order to cause the said
wool to be collected and levied without delay and delivered to William as
aforesaid. By bill of the treasurer. |
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The like to the assessors and collectors in the North Riding, co. York. |
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By bill of the treasurer. |
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To the assessors, collectors and receivers of the portion of 20,000 sacks
of wool for the past year, to be levied in co. Salop. Order to cause the 16½
sacks 13 pounds of wool which are in arrear of the quantity of wool apportioned to that county for the past year, and which the king has sold to
Thomas Colle, merchant, to be levied without delay and delivered to Thomas
by indenture. By bill of the treasurer. |
July 20.
Westminster. |
To the assessors, collectors and receivers of the portion of the 20,000
sacks for the past year to be levied in co. Norfolk. Like order, 'mutatis
mutandis,' to deliver 136 sacks in arrear in that county, to John atte Fen
of Lenn, merchant, to whom the king has sold them. By K. |
May 26.
Westminster. |
To the collectors of wool in the East Riding, co. York, to be levied in
the present year. Order to cause all the wool collected by them, whether
delivered in fleeces or otherwise, to be opened and examined in the presence
of Thomas de Berewyk, Robert de Shirburn of Beverley, Thomas de
Manby, Thomas de Lyndeseye, Robert Bayous, William de Dalton and
Thomas Graa, merchants, if they choose to attend, to see whether it be
useful and of the right sort of the country, and to deliver all the wool
received by them in that county up to the sum of 249¼ sacks 4 stones
4¾ pounds to those merchants by indenture, as the king has sold to those
merchants 578 sacks 25½ stones ¾ pound of wool of co. York, and the
king granted that those who had not wool in the county should, if they
wished, pay the merchants for the same and that the merchants should
receive the money in lieu of the wool, and the king has learned that certain
persons, scheming to practise deception in the livery of their wool, place
refuse wool and other dishonest things in the fleece and make the wool
appear useful and of good sort on the outside, although within it is of
mediocre value, and they do not permit the wool to be opened when it
ought to be weighed, and so they deliver the wool to the king, and others
having good wool of the sort of the country, buy wool of a worse kind in
other parts of the county and conceal their good wool, proposing to
fraudulently deliver the feeble wool bought by them to the king. |
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By bill of the treasurer. |
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The like to the following collectors of wool for the present and past
years, for the following merchants, to wit:— |
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The collectors in the West Riding,
co. York, for 167 sacks 5½
stones 7 pounds |
to be delivered to the same
merchants. |
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The collectors in the North Riding,
co. York, for 137½ sacks 2 stones
2½ pounds |
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The collectors in the city of York
for 24¾ sacks |
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The collectors in co. Warwick for
210 sacks 10 cloves ½ pound |
to be delivered to Robert Baker
of Lughteburgh, merchant. |
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The collectors in co. Rutland for
55¾ sacks 5 stones ½ pound. |
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The collectors in co. Salop for 118 sacks 9 stones ¾ pound, to be
delivered to Thomas Colle of Shrewsbury, merchant. |
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The collectors of wool in co. Surrey for 191 sacks 7½ stones 2¾ pounds,
to be delivered to Richard Polkyn, merchant. |
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The collectors of wool in co. Surrey for the past year to deliver
162 sacks to the same Richard. |
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The collectors of wool in co. Derby for 123¾ sacks 6¾ pounds, to be
delivered to Roger de Brysele and Henry de Brysele, merchants. |
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Membrane 8. |
May 30.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to allow 340l. to
John de Weston, late the constable of Bordeaux, in his account, if they
find that he paid that sum of little Tournois, for the king, whereof 7½d. are
worth a sterling, to Richard de Bury, bishop of Durham, then clerk and
treasurer of the wardrobe, by the hands of Janotus de Brocas, keeper of
the king's horses, as may appear by Richard's letters of acquittance which
are in John's possession. |
June 16.
Westminster. |
To John de Faucomberge, escheator in co. York. Order to take into
the king's hand all the lands of Ingelram son of Ingelram de Gynes, if he
is found to have been of the power and lordship of France and an adherent
to the same, answering to the king for the issues thereof, as with the
assent of the council, the king ordered that all the possessions, goods
and chattels of aliens and others of the power and lordship of France in
the realm of England, should be seised into his hand, and now the king is
informed that 16 messuages, a mill, 8 bovates and 60 acres of land,
80 acres of meadow and 12d. rent of Ingelram in Thorneton in Lonesdale
in that county who is of the power and lordship of France, are not yet
seised into the king's hand. By C. |
June 1.
Westminster. |
To Robert le Bakere of Lughtburgh. Order to pay to Queen Isabella
500l. of the money of the king's wool of cos. Rutland and Warwick, sold to
him, one moiety at Midsummer next and the other moiety at St. Peter ad
Vincula following, in accordance with the king's grant, in part payment of
debts in which the king is bound to her. By K. |
June 8.
Westminster. |
To John de Ratyngden, Hugh Boucy, William de Northo and John de
Perchyng, appointed to take wool granted in the 14th year of the reign, in
co. Sussex. Order to deliver to Queen Philippa or to her attorney, 2½ sacks
2 cloves of wool of the remainder of their account, which the king has
assigned to her in part satisfaction of 4,000l. which the king promised to
pay for her to divers of her creditors. |
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By K. and C. and by bill of the treasurer. |
June 18.
Westminster. |
To Thomas de Hampton, keeper of the islands of Gereseye, Gernereye,
Serk and Aureneye, or to him who supplies his place. Order to restore to
all rectors and vicars of churches and perpetual chaplains who are natives
of Normandy and who have made continual stay upon their benefices and
rents at the king's faith and peace, both before and after the war, and who
are ready to defend the possession of those islands against the attacks of the
king's enemies, their churches, vicarages, rents and possessions together
with the issues thereof, without delay, although the king ordered Thomas
to cause all the possessions of religious and other aliens of the power of
France to be taken into the king's hand by reason of the war, but he wishes,
by the advice of the council, to show special favour to such rectors, vicars
and chaplains. By C. |
June 6.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas the king granted
to Walter Prest of Melton Moubray, permission to lade in the port of
Kyngeston upon Hull and to take to Flanders 24 sacks of lambs' wool and
pelt wool, and because Master John de Thoresby mainperned that he
would pay 23s. 4d. a sack beyond the custom of ½ mark thereon at the
receipt of the exchequer on the octaves of Hilary last, the king ordered
the collectors of customs in that port by writ to receive ½ mark a sack from
Walter and permit him to take the 24 sacks as aforesaid; and now Walter
has surrendered the writ to chancery enclosed in wax to be cancelled,
beseeching the king to discharge him of the 23s. 4d. a sack and of the
custom, and John of the mainprise; and because the king has caused the
writ to be cancelled in the rolls of chancery, he orders the treasurer and
barons to cause the extracts of the writ at the exchequer to be cancelled,
and to discharge Walter and John as aforesaid. |
June 6.
Westminster. |
To the same. Order to supersede the demand made by the sheriff of
Somerset on the abbot of Glastonbury for the yearly tenth of his spiritualities and temporalities if they find upon examination of the rolls and
memoranda of the exchequer, that the abbot paid his wool for his temporalities and spiritualities in accordance with the ordinance, and they shall
discharge the abbot and the prior of Bath, sometime collector of the tenth
in the diocese of Bath and Wells, of the said yearly tenth, as the clergy of
the province of Canterbury who had not been assembled in the last
parliament or granted any wool there, in their convocation at St. Bride's
church, London, on the morrow of St. Jerome in the 12th year of the
reign, granted the king a tenth beyond the triennial tenth previously
granted by the same clergy, to be paid for the year after the lapse of the
three years, so that they should be quit of all prestation and taking of wool;
and the king ordered the collectors of the triennial tenth in divers dioceses
not to compel abbots and other religious who were summoned to the
parliaments and granted their wool there, to pay the said tenth; and now
the king has learned from the abbot that although he was present at the
parliament and granted his wool, which he has paid, yet the treasurer and
barons cause him to be distrained by the sheriff for the said tenth, because
the prior has charged himself with that tenth in his account. |
June 16.
Westminster. |
To Bartholomew de Burgherssh, keeper of the Forest this side Trent, or
to him who supplies his place in the forest of Dene. Order to deliver to
bail John le Taillour of Staunton, the elder, Walter Mey, John Doul,
Walter Payn, Walter Jawan, John Burgeis and Roger David of Neulond,
imprisoned at St. Briavels for trespass of vert and venison in the forest of
Dene, if they shall each find twelve mainpernors who will undertake to have
them before the justices next in eyre for pleas of the Forest in co.
Gloucester to stand to right concerning the said trespass, if they are repleviable according to the assize of the Forest. |
June 18.
Woodstock. |
The like to the same for Gilbert Hanyesone of Staunton, Nicholas Seet,
John le Taillour the elder, William Wylymot, John Wylymot, John Foughel,
Elia Wrenou, Thomas Wylymot, Richard le Ryene of Staunton and John
Jan of Staunton, imprisoned for a like trespass in that forest. |
June 25.
Westminster. |
To the assessors, collectors and receivers of wool for the present year in
co. Southampton. Order to deliver to Oliver de Ingham or to his attorney
78½ sacks, at 7l. the sack, in accordance with the king's grant to him in
aid of his expenses and wages and those of the men about to set out in his
company, because it has been so ordained by the king and his council. |
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By bill of the treasurer. |
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June 12.
Westminster. |
To the collectors of the petty custom in the city of London. Order to
pay to Henry de Lascastr[ia], earl of Derby, or to his attorney 385 marks
9s. 7d. for Easter term last, and if the issues do not suffice for this to
certify the collectors of the custom of wool, hides and wool-fells in the
port of London of what is lacking, and after such certificate they shall
pay nothing to the earl, as the king ordered them to pay the earl all the
issues of the petty custom up to the sum of 445 marks 9s. 7d. due for the
said term [as at page 290 above] and they have returned that they paid 40l.
to the earl for that term, and that they have not at present a quantity of
the said issues. |
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Mandate to the collectors of the custom of wool, hides and wool-fells in
the port of London to deliver to the earl the sum which is found to be due
to him by the certificate of the collectors of the petty custom. |
June 16.
Woodstock. |
To the collectors of customs in the port of Boston. Order to pay to
Godekinus de Revele, the elder, merchant, 50 marks for Midsummer next,
as the king granted to Robert de Foresta, 100 marks to be received yearly
for life of the customs in that port; and afterwards Robert besought the
king to transfer those 100 marks to Godekinus, and with the assent of the
parliament held at Westminster on Wednesday after Sunday in Mid Lent
in the 14th year of the reign, the king granted that Godekinus should
receive the said 100 marks yearly for life. |
June 20.
Westminster. |
To the bailiffs of Southampton. Order to arrest a barge of John Bidard
and two other barges which belonged to certain enemies of the duke and
duchess of Brabant, taken in war by John, with the merchandise therein
and deliver them to John, for the use of the duke and duchess, as the king
ordered the bailiffs to inform him in chancery concerning that taking, and
they returned that they arrested a barge of John of 36 tons burthen to
set out to sea with the fleet, by reason of the king's order to them to
arrest ships, and the two other barges because it was testified generally
that John took them of merchants crossing the sea in time of the truce, and
it has been testified before the king and council that the said two barges
with wheat, fish and other merchandise therein were taken at sea in war
from the said enemies by John and his fellows, serjeants of the duke and
duchess, whose goods the king does not wish to be arrested in the realm. |
July 1.
The Tower. |
To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to pay to Richard, earl of Arundel,
what is in arrear to him of his wages for the custody of the castle and town
of Porchester and the forest there, as others who have held the custody
have received for the same, and to pay such wages henceforth, as the king
committed that custody to him to hold for life as others have held it. |
June 26.
Westminster. |
To the collectors of wool for the present year in co. Norfolk. Order to
cause all the wool to be taken to the city of Norwich and the town of Lenn
as shall please the men of those parts, for their greater quiet, as although
the king ordered them to have all the wool taken to Norwich, yet the city
is far distant from certain parts of the county and it would be a great loss
to the men of those parts if they should take the wool touching them to so
distant a place. By C. |
June 16.
Westminster. |
To the sheriffs of London. Order to cause the arrest of the goods and
merchandise of men and merchants of Amyas and elsewhere of the power
of France and keep them safely until further orders although they have not
been appraised at their true value so that full answer for the same may be
made at the king's order. |
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The like to the sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk. |
July 1.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to audit the
account of Thomas de Whittonstall and Peter le Ternymaker, attorneys of
the men of Brugges for their costs and expenses in collecting, levying and
carrying the 400 sacks of wool of co. Devon for the past year, which the
king assigned to those men in part payment of certain debts, and to give
them payment or competent satisfaction for what is found to be due to
them, if after examining the agreement made with those men it be found
that they ought to be satisfied for such expenses, as they have besought
the king to order such account to be made with them, as the attorneys
incurred divers costs in collecting and levying the wool and carrying it
to the ports of Exeter and Southampton. |
June 25.
Woodstock. |
To the same. Order to discharge the collectors of wool for the present
year in cos. Norfolk, Suffolk, Wilts and Southampton for the past and
present years, and Oliver de Ingham and his tenants in bondage, of the
portions touching them, in accordance with the king's grant to Oliver and
with his orders of supersedeas to the said collectors. |
