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June 2.
Woodstock. |
To the sheriff of Oxford. Order to cause a coroner for that county to
be elected in place of Ralph de Chastilon, who is insufficiently qualified. |
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By the testimony of the earl of Arundel. |
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Membrane 25. |
June 1.
Woodstock. |
To the treasurer and chamberlains. Whereas the king lately sent William
fitz Waryn to parts beyond the sea, and granted to him 20s. for every day
spent in that service, for his wages, and caused 100 marks to be delivered to
him for his expenses, and now William has besought the king to order satisfaction to be done to him for the arrears of his wages and the expenses of
his passage; the king orders the treasurer and chamberlains to account with
William in the premises, and to pay to him what they shall find to be due
to him. By C. |
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To the treasurer and chamberlains of the exchequer, Dublin. Order to
pay to John Jordan, who lately came to the king in England by his order,
and who is returning to Ireland on the king's affairs there, 20l. of the issues
of that land, in subvention of his expenses. By K & C. |
June 3.
Woodstock. |
To William de Monte Acuto and Henry de Ferariis, keepers of the islands
of Gernereye, Jereseye, Serk and Aurneye, or to those who supply their
places. Order to cause 120 quarters of wheat and 20 tuns of wine to be
bought and purveyed without delay of the ferm of those islands, and cause
one moiety of the same to be placed in the king's castle of Gernereye and
the other moiety in the king's castle of Jereseye, charging the keepers of
those castles with the custody thereof, and to cause as many men-at-arms as
are necessary for the munition and safe keeping of those castles to be chosen
in those islands without delay, and placed in those castles if any danger is
imminent in those parts, so that the malice of the king's enemies, if they
presume to go to those parts, may be manfully repelled, administering to
such men such wages as shall seem reasonable, as on account of news which
has been intimated to the king, he wishes the said castles to be munitioned.
By C. |
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To the same. Order to cause Simon de Goldyngham, knight, and John
de Hoo, whom the king is sending to those parts for the munition of the castles
of Gernereye and Jereseye, to be placed as the keepers may see fit for the
safe keeping of the castles and of the adjacent parts, and to cause reasonable
wages to be delivered to them, having respect to Simon's estate, while they
shall stay for the said munition. By C. |
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To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to pay to Simon de Goldyngham,
10l., and to John de Hoo, 10 marks, for making provisions of armour and
other necessaries, and for their expenses to those islands. By C. |
June 4.
Woodstock. |
To the sheriff of Somerset. Order to cause a coroner for that county to
be elected in place of Thomas de Panes, who is so weak that he cannot
exercise the duties of his office. |
June 3.
Woodstock. |
To John de Wodehous, keeper of the hanaper. Order to pay to Simon
de Goldyngham and John de Hoo, 46s. 8d., to wit, to Simon, 26s. 8d. and
to John, 20s., upon their expenses in going to the island of Gerneseye on the
king's affairs. By K. |
June 4.
Woodstock. |
To Ralph de Middelneye. Whereas the king lately appointed him to
cause all the corn growing in the lands of the temporalities of the provostship
of Wells, which belonged to Robert de Tanton, late provost of Wells, to be
gathered and placed in the granaries of Cumbes St. Nicholas and Wynesham,
cos. Somerset and Dorset, to be kept for the king's use, to be threshed and
sold by Hugh de Ebor[aco], the king's clerk, whom the king appointed together with John Cok of Oxford and William de Dalton, his clerks, to take
into his hands the said corn and all the goods and chattels, both jewels
and other things which belonged to Robert, by reason of the account
which Robert was bound to render for the time when he was keeper of the
wardrobe of the king's household, and to keep them safely until further
orders, so that Ralph should answer to the king for the money arising therefrom; and because William de Nortwell, then cofferer at the exchequer,
has undertaken to render the said account for Robert and to satisfy the king
for what is found to be due, and for this he there found sufficient security,
the king orders Ralph to deliver by indenture to John, archbishop of
Canterbury, who at William's request and the king's wish undertook to
answer for the said goods and chattels, both for the acquittance of his debts
and for the other things which are required in this matter, as much as
may seem necessary for the safety of his soul, or to deliver to the archbishop's attorney all the money of the said corn so sold by Ralph. By K. |
June 12.
Woodstock. |
To William Trussel, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle
further with a rent of 10l. 2s. in Great Tywe, co. Oxford, restoring the issues
thereof to Roger Chauntecler of London, as the escheator returned that he
had taken that rent into the king's hands because it was found by an inquisition of office that Roger acquired the rent in fee of Robert de Veer who
held it in chief, without licence; and afterwards Roger informed the king
that he holds that rent of Ranulph de Veer and not of the king, wherefore
the king ordered the escheator to take an inquisition upon the premises, by
which it is found that Roger holds the said rent of Ranulph by the service
of a 'musket' at the feast of St. Peter ad Vincula for every service and not
of the king. |
June 6.
Woodstock. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause the demand
which the sheriff of Norfolk makes for 23 marks 12d. of the goods and
chattels which belonged to Luke de Flisco, cardinal of the Roman church,
late parson of Tyrington church, by reason of the tenths granted to the king
by the clergy of the realm in the 8th year of his reign and in the present
year, to be superseded, and to cause the executors of Luke to be discharged
thereof, as the king pardoned the cardinals of the Roman church all the
debts which they owe to him of their benefices by reason of the tenths and
aids imposed on the clergy of the realm by the pope and granted to the
king by the pope or the prelates and clergy of the realm. By K. |
June 10.
Berwick-on-Tweed. |
To John Moryn, escheator beyond Trent. Order not to intermeddle
further with the lands which belonged to Matilda de Segrave, at her death,
restoring the issues thereof, because the king has learned by inquisition
taken by the escheator that she held no lands at her death in chief in that
bailiwick, but that she held lands of other lords by divers services and
that John de Segrave son of Stephen de Segrave, her kinsman, is her next
heir and of full age. |
June 14.
Northampton. |
To John Darcy, justiciary of Ireland or to him who supplies his place
there. Whereas the cathedral church of Arfert being lately void by the
death of Nicholas, the last bishop of that place, the dean and chapter elected
Master Alan Chachiern, treasurer of the church of Cashel and canon of the
church of Arthfert, to be their bishop, as they have informed the king, beseeching him to give the royal assent to that election, although it was made
without the king's licence, yet the king has given his assent to the election, committing to John the power of receiving the fealty of the bishop
elect, and of causing the temporalities of the bishopric to be restored to
him, if the election is canonically confirmed by the metropolitan of the
place, having first received from the bishop elect his letters patent under the
seal of the chapter, that the present grace shall not be taken to the king's
prejudice in future. By C. |
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Et erat patens. |
June 8.
Woodstock. |
To John Moryn, escheator beyond Trent. Order not to intermeddle
further with 7 messuages, 12 bovates of land and 2s. rent in Holteby, restoring the issues thereof, because the king has learned by inquisition taken by
the escheator that John de Grantham held no lands at his death in his
demesne as of fee in chief in that bailiwick, but that at one time he held in
his demesne as of fee the said messuages, land and rent, which he granted
to John de Grantham his son, and the heirs of his body, rendering thereof to
John de Grantham 100s. yearly for life, by a fine levied in the king's court. |
June 15.
Berwick-on-Tweed. |
To John de Cobham and Thomas de Brokhull, collectors in co. Kent, of
the tenth and fifteenth, granted to the king by the community of the realm.
Order to pay 40l. to Geoffrey de Say, admiral of the fleet of all the ships
from the mouth of the Thames towards the west, for the king's affairs, notwithstanding any other assignment made by the king upon the said money. |
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By K. |
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Membrane 24. |
June 10.
Woodstock. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause 22l. 0s. 8d.
to be allowed to Constantine de Mortuo Mari in the debts which he owes at
the exchequer, if they shall find, upon viewing his bill, that that sum is due
to him, provided that he answer to the king for the residue of those debts,
as Constantine has besought the king to order such allowance to be made to
him on the said debts, which are exacted of him, as 22l. 0s. 8d. are owing to
him for the wages of his men and horses for the time when he was steward
of the household of Eleanor, countess of Guelders, the king's sister, as may
fully appear by a bill in his possession under the seals of Robert de Tong,
then keeper, and John le Smale, then controller of Eleanor's wardrobe. |
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By C. |
June 14.
Nottingham. |
To the treasurer and chamberlains. Order to pay to Anthony Bache,
merchant, in his name and that of Argenta his wife, 50 marks for Easter
term last of those 100 marks which the king granted to them on
4 April in the 9th year of his reign for Anthony's good service to the
king and Queen Philippa to be received yearly, until the king has caused
provision of 100 marks of land to be made for them in a suitable place
within the realm, for life. |
June 16.
Berwick-on-Tweed. |
To William Trussel, escheator beyond Trent. Order not to intermeddle
further with 4 marks 2s. rent in Bromholm and Lincelade, two messuages,
two tofts, 30 acres of land, 3 acres of meadow, two acres of pasture, 16d.
rent and a fifth part of a mill and a dovecote in Wotton, restoring the issues
thereof to Anabilla wife of Adam Pigot, as the late king pardoned Adam and
Anabilla the trespass which they made in acquiring for themselves and
Adam's heirs the said rent of Baldwin Pigot, and the said messuages, tofts,
land, meadow, pasture and rent and fifth part of Thomas Paynel, which
messuages, etc. they held of the late king in chief, and on entering thereon
without the king's licence, and the late king granted that Adam and Anabilla
should hold the messuages, etc. for themselves and Adam's heirs of the
king by the services due thereupon. |
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To the same. Order not to intermeddle further with 25 acres of land,
5 acres of pasture, 7 acres of wood, 10s. rent and the ninth part of a mill in
Wotton, as the king pardoned Adam Pigot of Wotton and Anabilla his wife,
by a fine which Anabilla made with him, the trespass which they made in
acquiring for themselves and Adam's heirs in the time of the late king the
said land, pasture, wood, rent and ninth part of Thomas Paynel, who held
them in chief, and in entering them without the king's licence, which said
land, etc. were taken into the king's hands by reason of Adam's death as
well as by reason of the said trespass, and the king granted that Anabilla
should hold the said land, etc. of the king by the services due thereupon. |
June 23.
Perth. |
To John Claver and Robert Clere. Order not to intermeddle further
with the fruits, issues and obventions of the churches annexed to the
bishopric of Norwich or with other spiritualities pertaining to that bishopric
by pretext of the king's commission to them of the custody of the temporalities of the bishopric, now void and in the king's hands, but to permit
the archbishop of Canterbury to receive them, and to restore to the archbishop anything which they may have caused to be levied, as it has been
shown to the king by the plaint of John, archbishop of Canterbury, that
the said John Claver and Robert, by pretext of the king's commission to
them, cause the said fruits, etc. and other spiritual things of the bishopric,
to be collected and levied, not permitting the archbishop to intermeddle
therewith, against the liberties of the church and canonical sanctions; and
in the parliaments of the king and his father, deliberation being taken upon
the petitions shown by the archbishop and the archbishop of York and by
other prelates of the realm concerning the receiving of such fruits and
obventions in times of voidance by the keepers of the same for the use of the
king, it seemed to the council in that parliament that it was not just that
the keepers of the temporalities of bishoprics should intermeddle with the
obventions, fruits and issues of churches annexed to episcopal sees. |
June 24.
Northampton. |
To Ralph de Middelneye, escheator in cos. Somerset, Dorset, Devon
and Cornwall. Order to cause William Grede and Alice Ive his wife,
kinswoman and heir of John de Fourneux, tenant in chief of the late king,
to have full seisin of all the lands of which John was seised in his demesne
as of fee at his death, because she has proved her age before the escheator,
and the king has taken William's fealty for all the said lands, and has
given him respite until Michaelmas next for the homage which is due to
the king by reason of the offspring between him and Alice. By K. and C. |
June 20.
Berwick-on-Tweed. |
To the justices of the Bench. Order to proceed in a plea between John
de Renefeld and Alice his wife and Master Pancius de Controne, keeper of
the land of the heir of John de Sancto Claro, knight, concerning a third part
of the manor of Brembiltie, and to cause full and speedy justice to be done
to the parties, notwithstanding the allegation of Pancius, as John and Alice
has shown the king that whereas they sought the said third part before
those justices against Pancius as Alice's dower from the free tenement
which belonged to John de Sancto Claro, sometime her husband, and
Pancius asserted that he held that manor until the heir of John de Sancto
Claro should come of age, by the commission of Queen Philippa, and
exhibited letters patent under the queen's seal testifying the premises,
wherefore he alleged that he ought not to answer John and Alice thereupon without consulting the king, upon which pretext the justices delayed
to proceed further in that plea, whereupon John and Alice have besought
the king to provide a remedy. By C. |
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Grant to Joan Botetourte, tenant of part of the lands of William Parles,
of an attermination for a debt of 52l. 15s. 11½d., wherein she is bound to
the king [as in Calendar of Patent Rolls, 10 Edward III. p. 266.] |
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By C. |
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Vacated because on the Patent Roll of the same year. |
June 26.
Perth. |
To William Trussel, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle
further at present with the lands which John le Brussy of Stepelmordon
held, restoring the issues thereof, if he shall find that John died after 5 June
in the 9th year of the king's reign, as on that day the king took the
homage of John fitz Waltier son and heir of Robert fitz Waltier for all the
lands which Robert held at his death in chief, and ordered Robert de
Holewell, then escheator in cos. Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge, Huntingdon,
Essex and Hertford to cause John to have full seisin of the said lands,
and now the king has learned from the plaint of John, that although
John le Brussy, who held of John by knight's service, died long after
the said 5 June, whereby the custody of the lands which belonged to
John le Brussy at his death ought to pertain to the said John fitz
Waltier, yet the escheator took the said lands into the king's hands and
detained them unjustly, pretending that John fitz Waltier was still in the
king's wardship, and that the custody of the lands which belonged to
John le Brussy at his death ought to belong to the king. |
June 24.
Perth. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer and to the chamberlains.
Order to account with William fitz Waryn for the days which he spent in
the king's service and for his expenses for his passage to Almain and other
parts beyond, and to cause payment to be made to him of what they find
to be due to him, as the king lately sent him to the said parts, and granted
to him 20s. a day for his wages so long as he should be on the said service,
and caused 100 marks to be delivered to him upon such wages. By C. |
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To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to cause the defects of the houses,
walls, turrets, bretaches (bretagiorum) and enclosures of the king's castle
of Porchester to be repaired and amended up to 20l., by the advice and
testimony of Richard, earl of Arundel, keeper of that castle or of him who
supplies his place there; and to cause four tuns of wine and 24 quarters
of wheat to be bought and purveyed from such issues and delivered by
indenture to the said keeper or to him who supplies his place for the
munition of that castle, and to cause the arbalests and other engines in the
castle to be made ready and amended as may be most necessary without delay,
because the king has learned that there are several defects in the castle and
that there are no victuals therein. By K. and C. |
June 20.
Berwick-on-Tweed. |
To the sheriff of Oxford. Order to expend up to 40 marks in repairing
the houses, gates, and bridges of Oxford castle by the view and testimony
of Master Robert de Stratford, archdeacon of Canterbury and chancellor of
Oxford University and of the abbot of Oseneye. By C. |
June 27.
Berwick-on-Tweed. |
To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to cause a verderer for the forest
of Chute to be elected in place of Philip Crok, who does not stay in that
county continually. |
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Membrane 23. |
July 1.
Northampton. |
To William Trussel, escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to
Emma, late the wife of John de Oddyngeseles, the manor of Longichinton,
co. Warwick, and a moiety of the manor of Bradewell, co. Oxford, together
with the issues thereof from the time of John's death, having taken her
fealty due in this respect, certifying the king concerning that fealty,
because the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator
that John held no lands at his death in chief in his demesne as of fee,
but that he held the said manor and moiety jointly with Emma by
the late king's licence and by fines levied in the present king's court, to hold
for John and Emma and John's heirs, and that the manor is held by the
service of a third part of a knight's fee and the moiety by the service of a
fifth part of a knight's fee. |
July 6.
Perth. |
To John Darcy 'le neven.' Order to restore to Nicholas de Verdon
the manor of Rathwer, together with the issues thereof, to hold for
six years, notwithstanding the grant of that manor to John and his wife;
the king grants also that John shall enter the manor after the said term and
hold it for himself and his wife according to the form of the king's grant, as
the king lately granted to Nicholas for his good service to the king and his
father in Ireland and in recompence of divers costs and expenses incurred
for the safety of the said land at divers times against the Scots and Irish,
in aid of his maintenance, the custody of the manors of Rathwer and
Rathfaith in the said land, which manors belonged to Roger de Mortuo Mari,
earl of March, and which were in the king's hands as escheats by Roger's
forfeiture, to be held during pleasure without rendering aught therefor, and
afterwards, on 29 March, in the 6th year of his reign, the king wishing
to do favour to Nicholas for his good service, granted that he should hold
the said manors for six years next following without rendering aught
therefor; and the king afterwards, in no wise recollecting the said grant,
granted the manor of Rathwer to John and his wife to hold under a certain
form, upon which pretext John entered the manor, amoving Nicholas
therefrom, and the king wishes Nicholas to hold that manor until the end of
the said term according to the form of the said grant to him, notwithstanding the grant made to John and his wife. By K. and C. |
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To John de Ellerker, escheator in Ireland. Order, that if John refuses
to deliver the said manor and issues to Nicholas, by virtue of the preceding
order, to cause them to be taken into the king's hands and delivered to
Nicholas, notwithstanding the said grant to John and his wife. |
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By K. and C. |
June 29.
Perth. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer and to the chamberlains.
William de Northwell, the king's clerk, who undertook to render account
for Robert de Tanton for the time when he was keeper of the wardrobe, has
shown the king that whereas he rendered the said account finally and
delivered at the exchequer the names of those to whom the king was then
bound in divers sums of money, yet because divers writs of liberate of the
king concerning the payment to Robert of certain sums of money and other
writs for divers payments to divers creditors, whose names are noted in
the same account, are hitherto unpaid, the treasurer, barons and chamberlains charge Robert with the sums paid by them to the said creditors
by virtue of the king's writs, and cause William to be distrained for answering to the king for those ferms; the king therefore orders the treasurer and
chamberlains to inspect the said writs and payments made to various persons
upon the said office, and to cause those payments to be deducted from the
sums contained in the writs and the writs to be so endorsed that no payment may afterwards be made by virtue of them, and the king wishes that
for the debts which are owed by the said account the following method of
satisfaction may be observed, to wit, that before payment, allowance or other
satisfaction is made to any creditor in the said noted account the original
account shall be seen, and then the sum to be paid or allowed to the creditor
shall be deducted from the surplus contained in the account, and the bill or
other deed (if the creditor had any of that debt) shall be received there
and delivered at the king's receipt and shall there remain condemned;
and if payment or allowance is made to a creditor in this respect, express
mention shall be made upon that satisfaction in the rolls of the exchequer
that William rendered the account thereof at the exchequer of accounts;
and the king does not wish Robert or William to be charged with any payments or allowances made to any persons upon the surplus of his account
or that payment, allowance or satisfaction to be made for any debt which is
owed by that account, if that order is not inspected, by reason of any order
of the king directed to the treasurer, barons and chamberlains, whom the
king therefore orders to cause the premises to be observed and enrolled. |
June 28.
Perth. |
To the sheriff of Northampton. Order to cause a coroner for that
county to be elected in place of John de Tywe, who is insufficiently
qualified. |
June 20.
Roxburgh. |
To the taxers and collectors of the tenth and fifteenth in co. Essex.
Order to supersede the exaction and levying of the goods of the hospital
of St. John the Baptist, Sideburnebrok, restoring without delay anything
that they may have levied, because the king has learned from trustworthy
testimony that the hospital is an ecclesiastical benefice and is so slenderly
endowed that the goods of the same hardly suffice for the maintenance of the
master and the other things incumbent upon the hospital, and if it is charged
with the aids granted to the king by the community of the realm it will
behove the master to diminish the appointed alms there. By K. and C. |
June 24.
Perth. |
To Edward, earl of Chester, the king's son. Robert, prior of St. Mary's
church, Norton, has shown the king that whereas lately, at the suit of
the prior by his petition before the king and his council in parliament,
showing that the prior had lately impleaded before the justice of Chester,
William de Clynton, concerning a messuage and 24 acres of land in More,
near Halton, co. Chester, the said justice delayed to proceed on that plea
because William, pleading before the justice, alleged that he held the said
messuage and land as parcel of the castle, manor and hundred of Halton,
which he holds for life by the king's grant, and the prior beseeching the
king to provide a remedy, the king ordered the earl to command his
justice to proceed in that plea and do justice to the parties in the premises,
notwithstanding the said allegation, but not to proceed to render judgment
thereon without consulting the king; and now the prior has besought the
king to order that proceeding may be made to render judgment, as process
has been taken in that plea up to the rendering of judgment, by virtue of
the said order; the king therefore orders the earl to command his justice to
proceed to render judgment with all possible speed, notwithstanding the
said grant, allegation or order, if process has so been made, having viewed
and diligently examined the process and called their serjeants before them,
having heard the reasons both for the king, the earl, William and the said
prior. By C. |
June 28.
Berwick-on-Tweed. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer and to the chamberlains.
Master Laurence Fastolf and Thomas de Woghop, executors of the will of
Simon, archbishop of Canterbury, have besought the king to cause the
sums which they owe to the king to be allowed to them in the debts which
the king owes to them, and to order what may be due to them by the
king beyond the said allowance to be paid to them, as the king is bound to
them in divers debts both for the time of the archbishop and after his
death, and the executors are likewise bound to the king in divers debts for
the said archbishop; the king therefore orders the treasurer and barons
to audit the account of the executors in this respect and to cause the sums
which shall be due by them to the king to be allowed to them in the debts
which the king owes to them; and the king orders the treasurer and
chamberlains to cause what is found to be due to the executors by the king
after such allowance to be paid to them, or a due assignment to be made
to them therefor. By K. |
June 28.
Perth. |
To Richard, earl of Arundel, justice of North Wales, or to him who
supplies his place. Order to go to the places where ships were arrested for
the king's use in North Wales and supervise the said ships, their apparatus
and the men elected to man them, in their array, and to deliver to the said
men, so about to set out in the king's service, some remuneration in aid of
their expenses as may seem good to Richard and the chamberlain of those
parts, although such wages were not paid to those about to set out for the
defence of the realm in the time of the king or his progenitors, and all
are compelled as a duty to the defence of the realm against foreign invasions,
because the king has been informed that the men for the equipment of the
said ships refuse to set out unless wages are paid to them beforehand, for the
time when they shall chance to remain in the said ships. By K. and C.
[Fœdera.] |
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The like to the justice of South Wales. By K. and C.
[Ibid.] |
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Membrane 22. |
June 23.
Northampton. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause the sheriff
of Derby and Nottingham to have due allowance in his account for
10l. which he has paid to Nicholas de la Despense, the late king's yeoman, if
it is so, as the king ordered the sheriff to pay 10l. to Nicholas for Easter
term last in accordance with his grant to him of 20l. to be received yearly
by the hands of the sheriff of those counties, in consideration of 20l. of
land yearly of the lands which belonged to William de Bredon in co. Derby,
which the late king granted to Nicholas, and which were taken out of his
hands by the common assent of parliament and delivered to William. |
June 20.
Northampton. |
To the same. Order to cause the sheriff of Nottingham and Derby to
have due allowance up to 29l. 6s. 9d., by the view and testimony of William
de Eland, constable of Nottingham castle, for the sums which he has
expended in repairing the houses, walls, turrets of the castle, the mills
under the castle, and a weir in the water of Trent, having viewed the
king's writ ordering him to do this and an indenture under William's
seal, which is in the sheriff's possession. |
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To the same. Order to cause the sheriff of Nottingham to have due
allowance up to 102s. 10d. for the sums which he has expended in moving
the place (sedem) for the high table of the hall within Nottingham castle and
causing it to be raised, by the view and testimony of the constable of that
castle, having viewed the king's writ ordering him to de this and an indenture under the constable's seal and in the sheriff's custody. |
June 26.
Berwick-on-Tweed. |
To the sheriff of Nottingham. Order to cause the defects of the hall
within the town of Nottingham, where the county [court] is held, to be
repaired where necessary, up to 20l. by the view and testimony of John
de Feriby, the king's clerk, because the king has been informed that the
said hall is ruinous and in great need of repair. By K. |
June 18.
Perth. |
To the collectors of the fifteenth and tenth in co. Essex. Order, under
pain of forfeiture, immediately and without excuse, to pay to Master Paul
de Monte Florum or his attorney 696l. at London, according to the tenor of
the king's previous order, knowing that if they render themselves difficult
in such payment, the king will punish them as disobedient and as the
obstructors of his affairs; the king has nevertheless ordered the sheriff of
that county that if the collectors neglect to pay that money, he shall compel
them to do so by heavy distraints and otherwise and cause it to be levied of
their lands and chattels, as the king lately ordered the collectors by writ of
the exchequer to cause 696l. to be paid to Paul or his attorney, at London,
in part satisfaction of divers sums of money which he has delivered on loan
to the king at the receipt of the exchequer, and although it was ordained by
the king and his council and was agreed with Paul's assent that the said
696l., together with other sums of money which the king ordered to be
delivered to him of the said fifteenth and tenth, both for purveyances of
victuals for the maintenance of the king and his lieges in Scotland, acting for
the defence of the realm against the Scots, and for the wages of same there
and of other necessary things, should be paid quickly according to the
ordinance of the council, the need being pressing, yet the collectors, not
having consideration to this, have hitherto maliciously denied to pay the
said 696l. to Paul, unless he will remit a part thereof for their use. |
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By K. and C. |
