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May 12.
Westminster. |
To Richard de Wydeville escheator in Norhamptonshire and Roteland. Order to cause John de Wittelbury, brother and heir of Thomas
de Wittelbury, to have seisin of a third part of two thirds of the manor
of Wyssendene co. Roteland, held in dower of his heritage by Joan
who was wife of Aubrey (Albredi) de Witlebury and taken into the
king's hand by her death, together with the issues thereof taken, but
not to meddle further with the manor of Horton co. Norhampton and
other lands likewise taken into the king's hand, delivering up any
issues of these taken; as the king has learned by divers inquisitions,
taken by the escheator, that the said Joan at her death held no lands
in the said counties in chief in her demesne as of fee, but as jointly
enfeoffed with her said husband held the manor of Horton with
appurtenances in Horton and Pidyngton of the gift of Robert de
Thorp knight, a messuage and one carucate of land and meadow in
Blaconesle co. Norhampton containing 80 acres of land of the gift of
John de Witlesbury knight, 20 acres of land in the town of Paston
of the gift of William de Thorp, five messuages and ten bovates
of land in Empyngham co. Roteland of the gift of William de Thorp
to them and the heirs of their bodies, and the said third part in
dower of the heritage of John son and heir of the said Aubrey,
that the said John de Wittelbury brother of Thomas is son and next
heir of the said Aubrey and Joan and of full age, and that the said
third part is held by knight service of the king as of the honour of
Huntyngdon, the said manor of Horton and other the premises of
others than the king; and on 26 September in the 28th year of the
reign the age of the said John son of Aubrey was proved, and the king
took his homage and commanded livery to be given him of the lands
of Thomas his brother. |
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To John de Bisshopeston escheator in Kent. Order not to meddle
further with 200 acres of land, 7 acres of meadow, 16 acres of wood
and 7l. 5s. of rent in Preston, Sheldwych, Faveresham and Herthey,
and with 52 acres of land and 11 acres of meadow in Estwell, taken
into the king's hand by the death of Michael de Ponynges knight,
delivering up any issues thereof taken; as the king has learned by
inquisition, taken by the escheator, that the said Michael held the
premises in his demesne as of fee in 'gavelkynde' of others than the
king, and that Thomas and Richard his sons are his heirs of all
lands so held at his death, Thomas being aged 20 and Richard
12 years and upwards. |
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May 6.
Westminster. |
To the king's searcher in the port of London and of Gravesende.
Order, upon the petition of Peter Gyselyn master of a ship called
'la Hogbote' of Flanders, to cause the said ship and all things therein
to be dearrested and delivered to the said master to make his
advantage thereof; as his petition shews that upon a search made
by the said searcher in the river Thames at Gravesende there was
found upon a woman in the said ship about to pass to foreign parts
43l. 10s. to be by her taken thither contrary to the ordinance and
proclamation made by the king and council, and that he arrested
the ship and is detaining it together with the said money, though the
said master knew nought of the money before the said woman's entry
into the ship nor after before the search, wherefore he has prayed for
remedy; and as well the said master as Doncardus Enson, William
Muse, John Souter and Lawrence Sherman seamen appearing in
chancery have made oath that the said master knew nought thereof
before the search, nor was the money brought thither by him by
covin or other subtlety. |
May 9.
Westminster. |
To the mayor and bailiffs of Suthampton. Order to cause proclamation to be made on the king's behalf forbidding any man who
has lands, goods and chattels in the said town and dwelt therein
heretofore to eloign himself therefrom or draw away or asunder his
goods or chattels, and if any has so done because of the danger now
impending, ordering him to return thither within eight days after
the proclamation and bring again such chattels, and if he shall not
to take and keep his body if found within the town in safe custody
in the king's prison until further order; and by true men of the town
to make inquisition what men have so eloigned themselves withdrawing their goods and chattels, when and in what manner, to take and
keep as aforesaid the bodies of all found to have so done when they
shall come to the town, if within eight days they shall not return
thither and bring again the goods and chattels so withdrawn, and
to seize into the king's hand their lands, goods and chattels found in
the said town, answering to the king for the issues of such lands and
for the goods and chattels so seized, and certifying in chancery from
time to time all their action in the matter. |
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May 14.
Westminster. |
To Alan de Toucestre of Merkyate. Order, upon the petition of
John de Cobildyk knight, to cause John son of the said John, if he
be in the said Alan's wardship, to be delivered without delay to his
father; as his said petition shews that, upon an allegation that John
the father was dead and that the wardship of John the son who was
within age pertained to her, whereas John the father was yet alive
and held no lands of her, Mary late countess of Norffolk caused John
the son to be seized to her use and kept him with her during her life
time, and that her executors, with whom he remained as a chattel
of the said countess, by command of the then chancellor as disposer
of the goods and chattels of the countess deputed by the king as chief
overseer of her will, delivered John the son to the said Alan for a debt
wherein the said countess was bound to him, and so John the son is
yet in the wardship of the said Alan; and his wardship may not nor
ought in the life time of his said father to pertain to the countess or
to any other, and it is witnessed before the king by credible persons
that John the father is yet alive and well. The king's will is that, if
the said countess was at her death bound to the said Alan in any debt,
her executors shall content him of her goods and chattels in their
keeping. By K. and C. |
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May 12.
Westminster. |
To John de Bisshopeston escheator in Kent and Sussex. Order to
take of Joan who was the wife of Michael de Ponynges knight tenant
in chief an oath that she will not marry without the king's licence,
and to deliver to her in dower the manors of Newynton Bertram
co. Kent extended at 16l. 4s. 0¾d. a year, Estwell co. Kent (the lands
therein held in 'gavylkynde' excepted) at 7l. 18s. 2d., and Ponynges
co. Sussex at 12l. 2s. 2½d., which manors and the manor of Wilton
co. Norffolk, extended at 111s. 2d. a year, the king has assigned to
her of her said husband's lands which are in the king's hand by his
death and by reason of the nonage of his heir. |
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To John de Cressyngham escheator in Norffolk. Order to deliver
in dower to Joan who was wife of Michael de Ponynges knight tenant
in chief the manor of Wylton which the king has assigned to her. |
April 16.
Westminster. |
To John de Bisshopeston escheator in Sussex. Order not to meddle
further with the manors of Penggeden, Perchyng, Hangelton and
Preston by Glynde taken into the king's hand by the death of Michael
de Ponynges knight, delivering up any issues thereof taken; as the
king has learned by inquisition, taken by the escheator, that long
before his death the said Michael by divers charters demised the
same to Robert Boteler, John Borle parson of Terryng, Robert Queche
and John atte Hide (all yet living) for their lives, and that the same
are held of others than the king. |
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To John de Bisshopeston escheator in Sussex. Order not to meddle
further with the manor of Westdene by Sefforde and a messuage and
100 acres of land in Walderne taken into the king's hand by the death
of Michael Ponynges knight, delivering up any issues thereof taken;
as the king has learned by inquisition, taken by the escheator, that
by fine levied in the king's court the said Michael at his death held
the said manor jointly with Joan late his wife (yet living), and also the
premises in Walderne under the name of the manor of Walderne, to
them and the heirs of the said Michael, and that the same are held
of others than the king. |
May 3.
Westminster. |
To the official of the court of Canterbury and to his commissary.
Notice to proceed in the court christian in a cause before them
prosecuted by Master William de Melborne, in case Robert de Derby
clerk was presented by the king to the prebend of Netherhaven in the
church of St. Mary Salisbury by virtue of the king's recovery of that
presentation and kept possession of the said prebend until his death,
and in case William de Feriby was after the death of the said Robert
collated thereto by authority of the ordinary and so occupies the same,
with licence to do what they shall find to pertain to the ecclesiastical
court the king's prohibition notwithstanding, provided that no
attempt be made tending to prejudice the king or his right, or judgments rendered in his courts; as Master William de Mulborne has
shewn the king that by virtue of a late papal provision to him of a
canonry and prebend in the said church he canonically obtained
possession of the said prebend, that he after was ousted therefrom
by the said Robert, who was thereto admitted at the king's presentation by colour of his alleged right of collating thereto at that time, and
held the said prebend all his life, that after the said Robert's death the
said William de Feryby obtained the said prebend by collation of
Robert now bishop of Salisbury to the prejudice of the said William
de Mulborne, and now unlawfully holds and occupies the same, that
he the said William de Mulborne is suing in the court christian
to recover possession thereof according to the said provision against
William de Feryby, that William de Feryby scheming to impede the
jurisdiction pertaining to the ecclesiastical court in that behalf, has
procured a prohibition to the said official and commissary addressed
against any attempt in contempt of the king tending to prejudice his right
or impair a certain judgment in his court before the justices of the
Bench, alleging in chancery that the king lately before the said justices
recovered against the said bishop and William de Mulborne his
presentation to the said prebend lately void and in his gift, and that
certain persons were suing in the court christian striving to annul the
king's right and the judgment so rendered, made provocations, appeals
etc. to the prejudice of the king and crown, and were thereby
endeavouring to submit the king's right and the said judgment to
the judgment of another and so to subvert and annul the same, and
shewing that by colour of the said prohibition the said official and
commissary have deferred to proceed further in the cause pending
before them between William de Mulborne and William de Feryby
touching the recovery of the said prebend, wherefore he has prayed
for remedy; and the king would not that the ecclesiastical jurisdiction
be unduly impeded. |
April 30.
Westminster. |
To John de Evesham escheator in Oxfordshire. Order to deliver
to Thomas son of John Giffard of Twyford the manor and advowson
of Somerton taken into the king's hand by his said father's death,
together with the issues thereof taken, but not to meddle further with
other lands likewise taken into the king's hand, delivering up the
issues thereof; as the king has learned by inquisition, taken by the
escheator, that the said John Giffard at his death held no lands in that
county in chief nor of any other in his demesne as of fee, but held the
said manor and advowson for term of his life in chief by knight service
of the gift and feoffment of Robert de Tibetot parson of Somerton and
Richard Malet chaplain made with the king's licence, with remainder
to the said Thomas and to the heirs of his body, and held divers other
lands of others than the king likewise for life with reversion to the
said Thomas; and the king has taken the homage and fealty of the
said Thomas. By p.s. [27832.] |
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June 1.
Westminster. |
Order to the sheriff of Essex to cause a verderer in that county
to be elected instead of Thomas de Whelpeston, who is sick and aged. |
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Order to the sheriff of Essex to cause a verderer in the said forest
(sic) to be elected instead of John Rokell, who is dead. |
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Order to the same sheriff to cause two verderers of the said forest
(sic) to be elected instead of Alexander de Goldyngham and John
Mounteney, who have sailed to parts over sea on the king's service. |
June 5.
Westminster. |
To the bailiffs of the town of Shrewsbury. Order to cause proclamation to be made on the king's behalf forbidding any burgess or
other inhabitant to pass out of the said town or absent himself
therefrom by reason of any the king's war, by colour of a retainer of
any lord, or for other like cause, but ordering them at their peril to
be intendent to the furnishing and defence of the town when need be,
and if the bailiffs shall find any rebellious herein, to cause them to
be straightway arrested and kept in safe custody until they shall find
security not to leave the town for such causes; as the king is informed
that under colour of such retainers some of the burgesses and inhabitants are purposing to pass over seas and leave the town without
sufficient furnishing in case evil should happen. |
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May 21.
Westminster. |
To William de Catesby escheator in Warwickshire. Order, upon the
petition of the prior of Kenilleworth, if the messuages, mills, lands,
rents etc. hereinafter mentioned are the same that are specified in a
licence in mortmain of 6 February 18 Edward II, and in the king's
letters of exemplification of the record and process of a cause in mortmain hereinafter rehearsed, to remove the king's hand and not to
meddle further therewith, delivering to the said prior any issues
thereof taken; as lately upon the finding of an inquisition, taken
of his office by John Bernard then escheator, that without the king's
licence the prior and convent of Kelyngworth after the publication
of the statute of mortmain appropriated to them and their house a
manor and four carucates of land and rent in Radford, 30 acres of
land called Berehull and 'Graungedore' with parcels of meadow called
'Odammesmedewe' and 'Horspol' in Whittenassh with three selions
of land at the 'Milledore' and a croft called the 'Aumnersclos,' taking
the issues and profits thereof 24 years and more contrary to the said
statute, the king ordered the sheriff to give notice to the prior to be
before the king in chancery at a set day now past to shew cause wherefore the premises ought not to be seized as forfeit into the king's
hand and remain with the king and his heirs according to the said
statute, and further to do and receive what the court should determine; at which day the said prior appeared by Richard de Braunston
his attorney and said in regard to a messuage, a mill, 10 acres of land,
2 acres of meadow, 3 acres of pasture and 16s. 1d. of rent in Radford
that on the date above mentioned the late king by letters patent
granted to his predecessor then prior of Kenilleworth licence in mortmain to acquire and hold the same to him and his successors, and in
regard to other six messuages, four virgates of land, 6 acres of meadow
and 10s. of rent in Radford and the said tenements in Wittenassh he
said that in the 26th year of the reign at Warrewyk there was a cause
in the king's court against a prior of Kenilleworth his predecessor
touching the purchase of lands there to the value of 10l., and it
was found by inquisition whereupon the said prior then put himself
that by the king's licence he acquired as well the said six messuages,
four virgates of land, 6 acres of meadow and 10s. of rent in Radford
as a mill, one virgate of land and 8 acres of meadow in Wyttenassh,
wherefore it was determined that he should go without a day, as may
appear by the said exemplification, and so the said now prior says
that as well the premises in Radford as those in Wyttenassh were
with the king's licence and by due process acquired by his predecessors,
without that that he or his predecessors acquired any other lands in
those towns, or that he has or claims any other, praying the removal
of the king's hand. |
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April 16.
Westminster. |
To Richard de Wydeville escheator in Norhamptonshire. Order
not to meddle further with the manor of Kilthorp, Keten and Weston
in the said county, taken into the king's hand by the death of Thomas
Deyncourt, delivering up any issues thereof taken; as the king has
learned by inquisition, taken by the escheator, that the said Thomas at
his death held no lands in that county in chief in his demesne as of
fee nor in reversion, but held the said manor of the gift of Robert
Deyncourt his brother, confirmed by William Deyncourt their father,
to him and the heirs male of his body during the said Robert's life,
with reversion for lack of such an heir to the said Robert (yet living)
and to his heirs, and that the same is not held of the king. |
May 12.
Westminster. |
To William de Wyndesore the king's lieutenant in Ireland. Order,
upon the petition of the prior of Lanthony by Gloucestre, to have
regard to the estate of the said prior and the convent, delivering to
them a part of the profits of the spiritual benefices and small
temporalities which they have in Ireland to bring to the said priory
for their maintenance, and reserving some part thereof for the expenses
of the wars in Ireland; as the said petition shews that great part
of their livelihood consists in the said benefices and temporalities,
and that by colour of the said wars they are now newly hindered from
taking any money arising therefrom to bring out of Ireland, praying
for remedy; and the king would not that they be altogether deprived
of their said profit. |
May 10.
Westminster. |
To the arrayers and triers of men at arms, armed men and archers
in Kent. Order, upon the petition of John de Cobham and Walter
Doget tenants of the manor of Bekesbourne co. Kent, not to compel
or distrain them by virtue of the king's commission to find any men
at arms, armed men or archers, or to contribute with men of the
commons of that county towards the expenses of such men by reason
of the said manor which is one of the members of the port of Hastynges
being of the Cinque Ports, but to suffer them to be thereof quit according to the charter of King Edward I and the king's confirmation thereof,
whereby in consideration that the shipping of the said ports might not
without great expense be maintained, in order that the same should
not fail nor perish, the said king by his letters patent, confirmed by the
king, granted that all they of the said ports and others whatsoever
avowing themselves of the liberty thereof and willing to enjoy the
same should contribute with their ships, every man according to his
means, to perform the king's service when commanded so to do;
and after in order that the barons of the said ports may the more
conveniently perform that service in time of need, the king by counsel
of the prelates, earls, barons and commons of the realm in a parliament
holden at York in the 2nd year of his reign granted the said barons
that all they of the said ports and others whatsoever avowing themselves
of the said liberty and willing to enjoy the same should contribute to
maintain the said shipping and perform the said service of all their
goods and chattels as well without as within the said liberty, and
if need be should by the mayors and jurats of the said ports and by the
constable of Dovorre castle be compelled so to do, and that the goods
and chattels of the said barons and others without or within the said
liberty taxed for that purpose should not be taxed with the goods and
chattels of foreigners towards tallages or other charges whatsoever;
and the king by charter has confirmed the aforesaid charter, granting
further that the said barons, their heirs and successors, shall fully
enjoy and use those liberties and every one of them without trouble
of the king, his justices, escheators, sheriffs, bailiffs or ministers
whatsoever, though heretofore they used not any of them; and now
on behalf of the said John and Walter the king has learned that the
said arrayers and triers have by colour of the present array assessed
them by reason of their said manor, being a member of the said ports,
to find a contribution towards certain men at arms, armed men and
archers, and towards finding and maintaining the shipping and services
aforesaid, and are unlawfully distraining and troubling them otherwise
than was heretofore used, although all the said barons and others of
the said liberty contributing as aforesaid by reason of lands, goods
and chattels within or without the same since the date of the said
charter and confirmation have not found nor been compelled to find
any men at arms, armed men or archers, any contribution or other
charge save the shipping and services aforesaid, but have been thereof
quit in all past times, praying for remedy; and it is found by certificate
of the treasurer and the barons of the exchequer, sent into chancery
at the king's command and exemplified by his letters patent, that the
said manor is one of the members of the port of Hastynges, being
the chief of the Cinque Ports, which with its members ought at the
king's summons to find 21 ships, and in every ship 21 men strong,
able, well armed and furnished towards the service of the realm. |
April 30.
Westminster. |
To John de Ipre. Order, upon the petition of Alice wife of Richard
Engleys now deceased, henceforth not to meddle with the office of
gauger of wines in the town of Bristol and the serjeanty of the tidal
river (aque maritime) within the liberty of the said town by colour of
a grant thereof to him made, restoring to the said Alice any issues
thereof taken; as on 24 February in the 27th year of the reign the
king by letters patent gave the said office to the said Richard and
Alice for their lives with all profits and emoluments thereto pertaining;
and on 6 March in the 28th year by other letters patent he confirmed
the grant of the said serjeanty within the liberty of her said town
made to the said Richard and Alice for their lives by letters patent of
Queen Philippa, granting further that even if one should overlive the
other they should have and hold that serjeanty during the life of the
longest liver; and now the said Alice has prayed restitution of the
said office and serjeanty according to the form of the grant, as she
has been therefrom ousted by the said John by colour of a grant of
the king to him made of the office of gauger and the office of 'waterbaillif,' and at the time of making that grant the king remembered not
the grant made to the said Richard and Alice for their lives. |
June 1.
Westminster. |
To Richard de Pembrugge keeper of the New Forest or to his
representative. Order to deliver by indenture to the mayor and
bailiffs of Suthampton, by the view and testimony of the verderers of
the said forest, 100 oaks for certain works which the king has ordered
in Suthampton castle. By K. |
May 28.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of Warrewyk for the time being. Order to suffer
the prior and convent of Coventre without let to enclose 246 acres
of waste and wood by them held in severalty within their manor of
Newelond it is said, and 436 acres of waste and wood within their manor
of Whitemore, if not within the bounds of the king's forest, on the king's
behalf forbidding all and singular within his bailiwick as well of the
town of Coventre as elsewhere to hinder or disturb such enclosure,
and if he shall find any so doing to aid the said prior and convent with
all his posse in removing such hindrance, certifying in chancery the
names of those who cause the same, if any there be; as lately of his
favour the king by letters patent granted licence to the said prior and
convent to make the said enclosures, to make parks thereof, and to
hold the said enclosures and parks so made to them and their successors
for ever without trouble or let of the king, his justices, escheators,
sheriffs, bailiffs or ministers whatsoever, provided the same be not
within the bounds of the forest. |
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Membrane 19. |
May 12.
Westminster. |
To the arrayers of men at arms, armed men and archers in the county
of Suthampton. Order to stay altogether their demand made upon
John de Shupton, provost of the chapel of St. Elizabeth by Winchester,
among the laymen of the county, to find any men at arms, armed
men and archers, releasing any distress made for that cause; as the
said provost is among other ecclesiastical persons of the county
arrayed by William bishop of Winchester for all the lands belonging
to his provostship to find such men for defence of those parts according
to the ordinance. |
May 12.
Westminster. |
To the sheriff of York. Order, upon sight of these presents, of the
issues of his bailiwick to cause the bridge of York castle towards the
city to be repaired by view and testimony of John de Stoke one of
the barons of the exchequer; as the said bridge is on every side so
broken and ruinous that a man may not without great peril enter
or leave the said castle, and the king would make provision to save
his people harmless. By K. |
April 28.
Westminster. |
To the sheriffs of London. Order to cause an inquisition which
remains to be taken in a plea of trespass pending before them between
John Foxton a native and Lewis Paul merchant of Provence an alien
to be taken as well by aliens as by natives, so that one half the inquisition be of aliens the other of natives if one of the party is an
alien the other a native, according to the charter and the king's confirmation thereof, not troubling the said Lewis contrary to the same;
as among other liberties granted to alien merchants by charters of the
king's forefathers and confirmed by the king, it is granted that in
such a case in any court in the realm one moiety of the inquisition shall
be of alien merchants and the other half of natives. |
May 16.
Westminster. |
To the bailiffs of Scardeburgh. Order, upon the petition of envoys
sent from Scotland to the king, to summon before them Robert de
Acclom and, if they shall find the facts to be as by the said envoys
stated, to dearrest and give up to John Gille merchant of Scotland
or to his attorney a sum of 34l. by the said Robert arrested and detained; as the said envoys have shewn the king that the said John
lately in Normandy laded a ship of Normandy with barley to take
thence to Scotland, that the said ship while at sea on its voyage was
by a storm driven to the port of Scardeburgh, that by reason of the
weakness of the ship the said John's servant sold the barley for 34l.,
and would have taken the money with him to Scotland, but the said
Robert unlawfully arrested the same and is detaining it under arrest
contrary to the truce between the king and the Scots, praying for
livery thereof. By C. |
May 15.
Westminster. |
To Robert de Aston the king's admiral, or to his lieutenant in the
port of Great Jernemuth and the neighbouring parts. Order to take
information by inquisition of true men of those parts and, if they
shall find the facts to be as hereinafter rehearsed, to cause all those
to whose hands the goods of William de Lyth, John Wode, John
Foldmouth and certain other burgesses of Aberdene in Scotland
came to make full restitution to them, or to their proctors or attorneys
suing in that behalf, first having duly contented those by whom the
goods were salved according to the maritime law and the ordinance
made by the king and council, compelling those withholding them
so to do as law and reason require; as the king has learned by the
grievous complaint of the said burgesses that at Lescluse in Flanders
they laded a ship called the Seint Marie of Westcapel in Seland,
William Mone master, with 100 tuns of wheat flour, 10 lasts of herring
and divers other goods and chattels to the value of 1,000 marks,
and with gold and silver in money and pieces of silver of the price of
500 marks, to be taken to Aberdene, that the said ship on its voyage
to Scotland was by a storm wrecked off the coasts of Kyrkeleyerode,
the said master escaping alive so that the ship and goods aforesaid
may not be called wreck, and that certain men of Kyrkeleye, Corston
and Lystoft and of the parts adjacent took and carried away the said
goods being cast up on the sands by the said shipwreck, and did their
will with the same, praying the king to make provision touching the
recovery thereof. By K. and C. |
May 10.
Westminster. |
To John Page searcher of the king's forfeitures in the river Thames.
Order to deliver to Joan wife of Thomas de Burton of London, by
the mainprise of the said Joan, Thomas Frere and William de Burton of
London, John Vautort and John Hautryve of Derbyshire, a sum of
43l. 10s. by him arrested in the said river at Graveshende; as on
behalf of the said Joan humble petition is made to the king for dearrest
and delivery of the said money and of herself, together with a ship
of Flanders wherein it was found and the master thereof, shewing
that to fulfil his vows her said husband departed from the city of
London on a pilgrimage towards the Holy Land and other the thres
holds of the saints, that on his journey he was in the parts over sea
taken and imprisoned and put to ransom, and is yet there detained,
that the said Joan desiring to deliver him sold all her lands, tenements
and rents and her goods and chattels as well in the said city as elsewhere, receiving of the buyers the sum above mentioned, and knowing
nought of the ordinance against taking money out of the realm without
licence, put herself with the money on board the said ship in the
said river to sail to foreign parts for delivery of her husband, and
that the searcher entered the said ship and making search found the
said Joan with the said sum upon her, arrested as well the ship as
the said Joan having upon her money to be taken out of the realm
contrary to the ordinance, and the master and seamen of the ship,
and is yet detaining them under arrest; and as well the said Joan
as the said Thomas Frere, William, John Vautort and John Hautryve,
appearing in person in chancery, have mainperned to answer to the king
for the said money, if it shall be determined that the same ought to
pertain to the king. By C. |
May 22.
Westminster. |
To the treasurer and the chamberlains. Order to deliver to Joan
who was (sic) wife of Thomas de Burton, by the mainprise above
mentioned, 43l. 10s. upon her found and arrested in a ship at Graveshende; as upon humble petition made upon her behalf (as above,
mutatis mutandis), the king ordered John Page searcher etc. (as above)
to deliver the said sum to her; and he has certified in chancery that
by the hands of John Bray he delivered to the treasury at Westminster
the said sum in the writ contained, namely on Wednesday after
St. Philip and St. James last, and so may not execute the king's
command. By C. |
