Dec. 18.
Woodstock. |
To Thomas de Overton and his fellows, collectors in the county
of Suthampton of a moiety of the tenth and fifteenth lately granted
for the expenses of men at arms, archers and others appointed for
defence of the realm during the king's absence. Whereas the king
lately by writ ordered the collectors to cause 200l. due to him of the
moiety aforesaid for the expenses of such men at arms and archers
by him chevised and paid, 100s. due to the collectors, 64s. due to
Henry Sturmy one of the arrayers of such men and to John Forester,
who at the king's command came for that county before the council
at Westminster, where the king caused the collectors and arrayers
of every county to be summoned, (namely to Henry 48s. and to John
16s. for their pains and expenses,) according to the apportionment
thereof made before the council to every county of the realm, to
be levied of the men of the county, and to deliver the 200l. at the
receipt of the exchequer, to keep the 100s., and pay to Henry 48s.,
to John 16s., and to cause the residue to be divided rateably among
singular the townships of the county by the view and testimony of
the prior of St. Swithun Winchester, John de Wynton and Henry
Sturmy or one of them; nevertheless the king's will is that the city
of Winchester and the towns of Suthampton and Portesmuth, because
of divers expenses and charges borne by them for defence of the
realm while the king was abroad, and for the poverty which they
are undergoing in these days, and the nobles, knights and esquires
who were with the king in his service in parts beyond the sea, be
discharged of the portions of the said moiety upon them assessed, and
that such portions be assessed upon other townships and hamlets
as they may best bear them, by advice of the said prior, John de
Wynton and Henry, and of Robert Markaunt, John Inkepenne,
Walter Haywode, Walter Not, Nicholas Wodelok, Roger Haywode,
Thomas Waryner, William Coufold and the sheriff, whom the collectors shall warn thereof: order, under pain of 100l., to cause the
said 208l. 4s. to be apportioned and levied of singular the townships
and hamlets of the county, within liberties and without, the city
of Winchester and the towns of Suthampton and Portesmuth excepted, and likewise the before mentioned nobles, knights and
esquires, and answer to be made to the king (if not already contented thereof) for the 200l., to keep 100s., to pay 48s. to Henry
Sturmy and 16s. to John Forester, if aught has been levied of the
city, towns or persons above excepted to restore the same, and to
perform all else in the first writ to them addressed, certifying their action
in chancery before the morrow of the Epiphany. By K. and C. |
