Close Rolls, Edward III: January 1374 | British History Online

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 13, 1369-1374. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1911.

'Close Rolls, Edward III: January 1374', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 13, 1369-1374, (London, 1911) pp. 527. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw3/vol13/p527a [accessed 19 April 2024]

January 1374



Jan. 22. Westminster.	To Matthew Button, John de Sloughtre, John de Weston the younger, Hugh Rodberwe, Richard Brayn, John Caumpeden and Richard Busshell. Order with diligence to be intendant upon the collection and levying in singular the cities, boroughs and towns in Gloucestershire, the town and suburbs of Bristol and the precinct thereof excepted, of the fifteenth granted for one year in the parliament assembled at Westminster at the morrow of St. Edmund the King last by the lords, nobles, knights and commons of England, and of the tenth of their moveable goods granted by the citizens and burgesses of the cities and boroughs of the realm, and to do and execute all things contained in the commission to them addressed, not awaiting the presence of Thomas Raylegh, so that notwithstanding his absence they shall according to their said commission answer for one moiety of the said tenth and fifteenth at the Purification next, and for the other moiety at Whitsuntide following; as lately by letters patent the king appointed them and the said Thomas to levy, collect and receive the same in Gloucestershire to his use, namely as great a sum as at the last grant of a tenth and fifteenth was levied in that county of the cities, boroughs and towns without the said town of Bristol and no more, so that at the feasts above mentioned they should answer for the same at the exchequer or elsewhere as the king should appoint; and the king has discharged the said Thomas of levying and collecting the same and has altogether removed him, for that by letters of the privy seal to him addressed, and produced in chancery, he is charged to abide continually in the Isle of Wight co. Suthampton upon his lands there for the safe guard and defence of the island, so that he may not be intendant upon such levy and collection.