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Aug. 6.
Westminster. |
To the warden of the Flete prison or to his lieutenant. Order, at
the instance of Robert Corne citizen of London, to set free William
de Chiriton lately committed to that prison at his suit. |
Aug. 7.
Westminster. |
To the collectors of customs in the port of London and the searcher
of forfeitures there. Order to suffer Richard de Melton of London
to lade in ships sixteen dozen bows and, first paying the customs,
subsidies and duties thereupon, to take them over to Ghent in Flanders,
any command to the collectors and searcher addressed to the contrary
notwithstanding; as John Plaier and Walter Prentys of London have
mainperned in chancery that he shall take them to no foreign parts
save Ghent. |
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Membrane 43. |
Aug. 2.
Westminster. |
To Hugh de Segrave the treasurer. Strict order by counsel of the
chancellor as best he may for protection of the king's honour and
estate to make a chevance of great sums needful for the king's use,
as well for payments for the captains of Calais and neighbouring
castles, for hired soldiers there, and for making a new tower for protection of that port, as for the safe guard of the marches of Scotland
from Easter last to Michaelmas next, and for the expenses of the
king's uncles and other lords now over sea for treating of peace with
France, though such chevance be to the king's hurt and loss; as the
king is assured that by reason of his present lack of money a chevance
must needs be made, and would not that the treasurer or any other
of the council should hereafter be impeached or troubled for any such
loss. Proviso that, if he shall pledge the king's jewels, they shall
not be eloigned, lost or aliened. By p.s. [3366.] |
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Et erat patens. |
July 20.
Westminster. |
To the keeper of the hanaper of chancery for the time being. Order
to pay to John des Roulles the king's serjeant 3d. a day and the arrears
of 2d. a day which the king granted him of the issues of the hanaper
for long service to the late king and to the king for life or until the
king should take other order for his estate; as for good testimony
concerning him, for his daily service, and for that he is come to a great
age, the king has granted him for life 1d. a day more. |
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Et erat patens. |
Aug. 2.
Westminster. |
To the collectors of customs, and to the controller and searcher
in the port of Calais. Order, upon petition of John Polymoud, to
view letters of coket which he or his attorney is ready to shew and,
if assured that the customs and subsidies upon 40 tuns of wine in a
ship called 'la Alyce' of Suthampton, John Hamme master, are fully
paid, to dearrest the same, suffering the petitioner or his attorney
to dispose thereof as he will; as his petition shews that by the said
master he sent that wine over to Calais to make his advantage thereof,
that the customs etc. were first paid, and that the master forgot the
letters of coket, wherefore the collectors etc. have arrested the wine,
pretending that the same were not paid; and it is the king's will
that the petitioner shall not incur loss by negligence of the master. |
Feb. 10.
Westminster. |
Order to the sheriff of Lincoln to cause a coroner to be elected
instead of Thomas de Horncastre of Lincoln, who is insufficiently
qualified. |
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Vacated, because in the seventh year. (See above, p. 371.) |
Aug. 12.
Westminster. |
To the mayor and bailiffs of Suthampton. Order, upon petition
of John Deghere of Neuport in the Isle of Wight and Richard Bernewelle of New Sarum victuallers of the castle and town of Chirburgh,
in name of reprisal to arrest and keep in safe custody until further
order all ships of France whatsoever in that port and any that hereafter
come thither to the value of 200l., the merchants, masters and
seamen therein; as their petition shews that at Chirburgh they
laded a ship with 'waide, lenge, tilis' and other goods and merchandise to the value of 200l. to bring to England, and that on the voyage
in time of the present truce with France the ship and goods were
taken at sea by men of Herflet and Hunflet in France and carried
away contrary to the truce. |
Aug. 6.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Hereford. Order by true men of his bailiwick
to make inquisition concerning goods and chattels whatsoever that
were of John Sutton, late servant of Thomas Chippenham of Hereford,
on Saturday before St. Lawrence 6 Richard II and after, to whose
hands they came, their description and price or value, also the lands
that were his on 20 December following and after, the yearly value
thereof, and who has occupied them since that date taking the issues,
and to send those inquisitions into chancery under his seal, and this
writ; as the said John being indicted for certain felonies etc. before
Nicholas de Audeley and his fellows, guardians of the peace and
justices of oyer and terminer in Herefordshire, was put in exigents
on the said Saturday for that he came not before them to answer,
and on the latter date was outlawed. By C. |
Aug. 5.
Westminster. |
To Roger Juyll escheator in Devon. Order to remove the king's
hand and meddle no further with the lands of Henry Blakebourne
parson of Stokenhamme in Stokenhamme, saving to the king his right
of action, and to deliver to the said Henry any issues thereof taken;
as the king lately ordered William Brightlegh late escheator to certify
in chancery the cause wherefore he took the premises into the king's
hand, and he certified that he found by inquisition, taken of his office,
that Jurdan Fitz John gave to William then rector of Stokenham and to
his successors all the lands now held in demesne by the rector in order
that he should every day by himself or a chaplain in his stead celebrate
all divine offices and sacraments save burial in the chapel of St. Martin
Shireforde for the lords and tenants of Malston, Kynedoun, Stancombe, Nitherton and Ramescombe, that the said William and all
his successors so did time out of mind, until a vicar was appointed in
the said church, and so did all the rectors and vicars since that time,
that the said Henry and William Clyfton now vicar performed the
said services until Easter 50 Edward III, and since that feast have
wholly withdrawn the same, that the premises are held in chief, that
Matthew Fitz Johan lord of Stokenham died without an heir, and for
lack of such heirs all right which should fall to them pertains by escheat
to the king, that all lands now held by the rector and vicar pertain
to the king by reason of the withdrawal aforesaid, and that they are
worth 20 marks a year; and after deliberation in chancery with the
justices, the king's serjeants and others of the council learned in the
law the king is aware that the premises ought not to have been so
seized, although the charges aforesaid ought to be performed and
are withdrawn. |
Aug. 20.
Reading. |
To the bailiffs and all the commonalty of the town of Corfe. Writ
de intendendo in favour of John Loter the younger, and order to admit
him to rule and keep the town in room of the mayor until the day of
election of a mayor there; as the king is particularly informed that
William Hygyn the mayor has committed and is daily procuring divers
trespasses and prejudices against the king, his serjeants of Corfe castle
and his tenants there, wherefore the king has removed him. |
Aug. 28.
Sheen manor. |
To the sheriff of Dorset for the time being. Order every year to
pay to Richard Pupplyngton the king's serjeant, one of the foresters
of Purbyk forest, 6d. a day for life; as the king is informed that he
has served the late king and the king more than forty years, travailing
in the late king's wars, and is one of the oldest archers of the crown,
and that he has no means of living save by the king's service, wherefore
the king has granted him 6d. a day for life, as he had in the late king's
time. |
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Et erat patens. |
Aug. 24.
Westminster. |
To the sheriffs of London. Order, upon petition of John Lagne
of Brittany merchant, if it contain the truth, to dearrest and deliver
to him a certain quantity of wine and woad of his arrested in the
port of London; as upon petition of Edmund Bys and Richard Wedoun
merchants of London, shewing that a ship called 'la Margarete' [of]
London was sent by them to Harflu in Normandy, relying upon the
truce with France, with goods and merchandise for sale there to the
value of 300 marks, and was there unlawfully arrested and detained
with the merchants, seamen and goods therein, the king ordered the
sheriffs in name of reprisal to arrest and safe keep until further order
all ships of France in the port of London, all goods of the French,
and the masters and seamen therein; and now the said John has
shewn that the said merchants' ship and goods are set free, and their
masters and seamen are dearrested. |
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Aug. 20.
Reading. |
To the mayor of London. Order by advice of the council to arrest
John More 'mercer,' Richard Norbury 'mercer,' William Essex
'draper,' Robert Franceys goldsmith, John Lincolle goldsmith,
Robert Riseby 'draper,' John Willardby 'taillour' and John Maudelyn
'taillour,' and to keep them in safe custody in prison until further
order, as they will answer for them. By K. and C. |
