Close Rolls, Edward III: January 1339 | British History Online

Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 4, 1337-1339. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1900.

'Close Rolls, Edward III: January 1339', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 4, 1337-1339, (London, 1900) pp. 590-591. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw3/vol4/pp590-591 [accessed 19 April 2024]

January 1339



Jan. 4. Windsor.	To the treasurer and chamberlains. Order to discharge Menaudus Brocas, keeper of the stud this side Trent of 7 foals in Gildeford park, for the last year, which were burned at Stoke near Gildeford in a certain house, if they shall find by inquisition that this took place without his fault, as he has besought the king to order this to be done.
Jan. 3. Windsor.	To Edmund de Duresme and his fellows, takers and purveyors of wool in co. Essex. Order to allow to Robert de Bousser in his portion of wool, 4 sacks which John Botetourt and William Buk, appointed to take a moiety of the wool granted in the last parliament at Westminster, in that county, took from him for the king's use, and delivered to William de la Marche, appointed to receive such wool, and take it to seaports. By C.
Jan. 2. Windsor.	To William Trussel. Order to restore to Geoffrey de Bodele, 9 pieces of wax, and 2 barrels of fur, as he has besought the king to provide a remedy, showing that his men and serjeants loaded a ship in parts beyond the sea with divers merchandise to be sent to England, and the ship and a great part of the merchandise were lost in the tempest, near Whitstaple, co. Kent, and the residue, the said wax and fur, were landed at that town by his said men, and were taken into the king's hands by men of those parts, asserting that they were plundered from merchants of Almain, the king ordered William to take an inquisition on the matter, by which it is found that 9 pieces of wax, and 2 barrels of fur, containing 2,000 squirrel skins, which were in that ship, and were not taken from merchants of Almain, and were landed as aforesaid, and not thrown on shore by the sea, and the wax is appraised 22l. 10s., and the fur at 40s.
Jan. 8. Berkhampstead.	To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer, and to the chamberlains. Whereas on 6 March last, the king appointed William de Kyngeston, his clerk, receiver of his money and victuals for the payment of wages and the maintenance of the mariners and others in his service from the mouth of the Thames towards the north, by the testimony and advice of Walter de Mauny, then admiral in those parts during pleasure, and afterwards, on 17 August, the king appointed him to survey the collection of the wool granted in the last parliament at Westminster, in cos. Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge, and Huntingdon, the receipt, packing, weighing, and sending thereof, to the king to parts beyond the seas, the king orders the treasurer and others to account with him in the premises, allowing him 5s. for every day spent in such service, and pay him what is due beyond the sums received by him, if they find that such wages have been allowed to him in like service. By C.