Jan. 24.
Westminster. |
To the barons of the exchequer. Order to allow to Richard son of
Geoffrey de Pycheford the following sums, which the late king, on
28 January, in the 26th year of his reign, ordered the barons of the exchequer to allow to the said Geoffrey, constable of Wyndesore castle and
bailiff of the seven hundreds of Bray and of Kenyton, these sums not having
been allowed to Geoffrey because he delayed delivering the said order to
the barons of the exchequer: 50l. 14s. 3½d. expended in the repair of the
houses and bridges of the castle, and the stables, walls, and vineyards of
the garden without the castle, in the 21st year of the late king's reign;
16l. 8s. 0d. expended in works upon the houses in Wyndesore park and the
pool there, and the paling round the park in the same year; 105s. 3¼d.
expended in repairing the houses of the manor of Kenygton and the
walls and palings about the same in the same year; 15s. ½d. expended
in repairing the houses of the manor of Bray in the same year; 46s. for the
maintenance of the late king's deer (ferarum) in Wyndesore park in the
same year; 6s. 11d. for the maintenance of the late king's deer in the park
of Kenygton in the same year; 34l. 15s. 10d. for the repair of the houses,
walls, and bridges of the castle, with the stable, walls, and vineyards of the
garden without the same in the 22nd year of his reign; 9l. 5s. 9d. for work
upon the houses in Wyndesore park and the pool there and the paling
about the park in the same year; 21s. 9d. for the repair of the houses in
the manor of Bray, in the same year; 6l. 17s. 11¼d. for the repair of the
houses of the manor of Kenyton in the same year; 76s. 10d. for the maintenance of the deer in Wyndesore park in the same year, by the view and
testimony of Hamo de Camera and Thomas Burnel, viewers of the works,
who took oath at the exchequer that Geoffrey had expended the aforesaid
moneys; 100s. paid to two chaplains celebrating divine service in the chapel
of Wyndesore, each of them 50s., for the 21st year of the late king's reign;
9l. 2s. 6d. paid to Hamo de Camera, porter of both gates of the castle aforesaid and one of the viewers of the king's works there, who takes 6d. daily,
for the said time; 60s. 10d. paid to John de Molendino, the second viewer
of the work, who takes 2d. daily, for the same time; 60s. 10d. paid to
William de Shortford, clerk of the works aforesaid, who takes 2d. a day, for
the same time; 4l. 11s. 3d. paid to John de Curru, the late king's serjeant
in the castle, who takes 3d. a day, for the same time; 60s. 10d. paid to
Henry le Alblaster, who receives 2d. daily for his maintenance for life of
the late king's gift, for the same time; 12l. 3s. 4d. paid to four watchmen
of the aforesaid castle, each of whom takes 2d. daily, for the same time;
76s. 0½d. paid to Edmund, the gardener of the garden without the castle,
who takes 2½d. a day, for the same time; 18l. 5s. 0d. paid to Robert de
Say, chief forester of Wyndesore forest, who takes 12d. a day, for the same
time; 6l. 1s. 8d. paid to Robert Lyghtfot, porter of Wyndesore park and
keeper of the houses there, who takes 4d. a day, for the same time;
45s. 7½d. paid to William the parker of Kenyton park, who takes 1½d. a
day; 70l. 7s. 11d. for the like payments to the said chaplains, Hamo,
Thomas, William, John, and Henry, the watchmen, Edmund the gardener,
Robert de Say, Robert Lyghtfot, and John the parker of Kenygton, in the
22nd year of late king's reign; 6l. 16s. 10½d. paid to Rhys (Reso) Vaghan,
who takes 4½d. a day for his wages from Michaelmas at the end of the
twentieth year of the said king until the same feast at the beginning of the
twenty-second year; 6l. 16s. 10½d. paid to the said Rhys for his wages
from Michaelmas at the beginning of the twenty-second year until the same
feast at the beginning of the twenty-third year; 9l. 2s. 6d. paid to two
serjeants guarding the said Rhys, each of whom takes 3d. a day, from
Michaelmas at the beginning of the twenty-first year until the same feast
at the beginning of the twenty-second year; 9l. 2s. 6d. paid to them for
their wages for the twenty-second year; 36s. 2d. for robes, linen cloths,
shoe-leather and other necessaries for the use of the said Rhys, in the twentyfirst year; 26s. 8d. paid to the said serjeants for their robes for the same
period; 33s. 4d. for robes, linen cloths, shoe-leather, and other necessaries
for the said Rhys in the twenty-second year; 26s. 8d. delivered to the same
serjeants for their robes for the same time; 100s. in decay to the said
Geoffrey of his ferm of the forest of Surrey for chiminage that used to be
received from the men of the forest, which the late king released to them
for the twenty-first year; 100s. for the like for the twenty-second year;
100s. in decay yearly of the issues of the park of Kenyton that he used to
receive for his ferm, which sum the late king retained for the twentyfirst year; 100s. for the like for the twenty-second year; 21s. 2½d. in decay
for new purprestures, which he used to receive from John de London'
for the same purprestures, which the late king assigned to John in
recompence for 40l. yearly for the twenty-first year; 21s. 2½d. for the like
for the twenty-second year; and 16s. for taking eight deer that the late
king granted yearly to the abbot of Westminster and his successors from
the forest of Wyndesore to be taken at the king's charge for the twentieth
year; 8s. for four deer to the said abbot in the twenty-first year. |
