Close Rolls, Edward III: January 1376 | British History Online

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 14, 1374-1377. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1913.

'Close Rolls, Edward III: January 1376', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 14, 1374-1377, (London, 1913) pp. 184-185. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw3/vol14/pp184-185 [accessed 24 April 2024]

January 1376



Jan. 9. Westminster.	To the true men of the town of Chippenham co. Wiltesir. Order to desist henceforth from levying and collecting the customs hereinafter mentioned, causing all moneys thereof heretofore taken by virtue of the king's letters patent to be laid out in repairing the town bridge, although on 4 October last in aid of the repair of the said bridge, which is broken and ruinous to the nuisance of all the country adjacent as he was then informed on their behalf, the king by letters patent to endure for two years granted the said men certain customs to be collected, levied and taken by the hands of those whom they should depute for the purpose of certain goods and merchandise coming to that town for sale, so that the moneys thereof arising should be wholly laid out upon such repairs and not put to any other use whatsoever; as the king has revoked his said letters patent, because on behalf of Elizabeth Gasselyn, lady of that town as it is said, information has now newly been given to the king that his grant so made redounds to her disherison and to the annulment of her fair and market there enjoyed from old time.
	Et erat patens.