Close Rolls, Richard II: January 1383 | British History Online

Calendar of Close Rolls, Richard II: Volume 2, 1381-1385. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1920.

'Close Rolls, Richard II: January 1383', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Richard II: Volume 2, 1381-1385, (London, 1920) pp. 190-191. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/ric2/vol2/pp190-191 [accessed 15 April 2024]

January 1383



Jan. 8. Westminster.	To the collectors in Kent of the tenth and fifteenth last granted by the commons. Order not to compel John de Cobham knight and Walter Doget, tenants of the manor of Bekesbourne which is a member of Hastynges one of the Cinque Ports, to pay the same upon their goods and chattels upon that manor with foreigners without the liberty of the said ports; as in consideration that the navy of those ports might not be upheld without great cost, King Edward I by letters patent, confirmed by the king, granted that all men of the said ports, and all avowing themselves of the liberty thereof and willing to enjoy the same, should contribute every man according to his means to perform the king's service concerning his ships at his command; and in consideration that disputes arose touching the general words therein, namely every man according to his means, by counsel of the prelates, earls, barons and commons in parliament in 1 Edward III the late king by letters patent, likewise confirmed by the king, granted that all men of the said ports and the others aforesaid should so contribute of all their goods and chattels without the said liberty and within, and should be compelled so to do by the mayors and jurats of the ports and by the constable of Dovorre castle if need be, and that goods and chattels of the barons and others without the liberty or within taxed for that purpose should not be taxed [towards] tallages or other charges with goods of foreigners; and in the parliament holden in 15 Edward III it was debated and agreed that the said barons and others of that liberty should be quit of all tallages and charges granted by the commons in respect of their goods within the liberty and without for which they were bound to contribute and did contribute as aforesaid.