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April 1.
Berkhampstead. |
To the collectors of customs in the port of Boston. Order to deliver to
William Dunort or to John Waybom, Levinus de Loveyn, Henry de Pape
and John Cole, his attorneys, 179 sacks of the king's wool in that port
without delay, in full satisfaction of 1000 sacks assigned to him in the
ports of Boston and Kyngeston upon Hull, and to permit the attorneys to
take those sacks to Andewerp to the staple, without paying the custom and
subsidy due thereon, as the king granted that William should take 500 of
the said 1000 sacks, and 500 of the said sacks, 400 in the port of Kyngeston
and 100 in the port of Boston, were delivered to William de la Pole by the
king's order, for the 500 sacks which the king ordered to be delivered to
him in the port of Ipswich of the 2418 sacks 10 stones of wool assigned to
him by the council in part payment of 2900 sacks which the king ordered
him to take to parts beyond this sea, and the king caused the 500 sacks
assigned to William de la Pole in the port of Ipswich, when they arrived
in parts beyond the sea, to be delivered to William Dunort because the
500 sacks assigned to him of the 2500 in the port of Lenn had not then
arrived in the said ports, and 179 sacks remain to be paid to him. By C. |
April 3.
Berkhampstead. |
To the collectors of customs in the port of Kyngeston upon Hull. Order
to supersede the livery of any wool to William Dunort by reason of the
said orders. By C. |
Feb. 27.
Kennington. |
To John de Warenna, earl of Surrey. Order to send 64 sacks 15 cloves
of the 200 sacks of wool which the king caused him to buy at 7 marks a
sack, and for which the king caused 300l. to be delivered to him in part payment of the price thereof, to the merchants of the societies of the Bardi
and Peruzzi, by indenture, without delay, to be taken as has been
ordained between the council and the merchants. By C. |
Feb. 26.
Kennington. |
To the collectors of customs in the port of Bishop's Lynn and to the
bailiffs of that town. Order to permit the merchants of the societies of the
Bardi and Peruzzi to lade 389 sacks 1 stone of wool in that port and take
them to the staple at Andewerp without paying the subsidy and custom
thereon and to aid them in doing this, as the king granted that the
merchants of the society of the Bardi should so take 3000 sacks and the
merchants of the Peruzzi, 2000 sacks, and the king wishes them to have
339 sacks 1 stone thereof in co. Cambridge of his wool, and it has been
ordained by the council that wool of co. Cambridge shall be loaded in
the said port to be sent to parts beyond the sea. By C. |
April 3.
Berkhampstead. |
To the sheriff of Cambridge. Order to cause a coroner for that county to
be elected in place of John son of John, deceased. |
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To John de Preston, William de Causton and Richard de Berkyng,
collectors in the city of London of the triennial fifteenth. Order to cause
800 marks due, for terms long past, of these issues to divers creditors of
the king in that city for victuals, armour and other things bought of them,
as is found by an indenture made between Edmund de la Beche, late
keeper of the wardrobe and the mayor of the city, the said collectors and
other citizens, for which things the collectors have not yet paid, to be
levied with all speed of all those of the city who are bound to pay the
fifteenth, before the Ascension next, so that the creditors may be satisfied
therewith. The king has ordered William de Briclesworth and his fellows,
lately chosen by the mayor, aldermen and community of the city to aid the
collectors, and the sheriffs of the city, to aid the collectors in this matter
when they are required. The king has ordered the mayor and sheriffs to
cause the 800 marks to be levied of the lands and chattels of the collectors,
if they have not levied that sum before the said feast. By the keeper and C. |
April 8.
Berkhampstead. |
To the collectors of customs in the port of London. Order to cause
allowance in the custom and subsidy on his wool taken from that port, to
be made to Henry de Braybrok of co. Bedford, according to the ordinance
of the council until 219l. 15s. 8d. are allowed to him, receiving from him
the customary oath, as the king is bound to him in that sum for his wool
sent to parts beyond the sea. |
April 7.
Berkhampstead. |
To the keeper of the king's forest and park of Claryndon or to him who
supplies his place there. Order to cause the underwood growing upon four
oaks to be cut and delivered by indenture to John Mauduyt, sheriff of
Wilts, to supply Old Sarum castle, and to cause the underwood to be taken
to the castle, because the king wishes the castle to be supplied, as his
enemies propose to invade the realm. |
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To the sheriff of Wilts. Order to pay to the keeper the costs which he
shall incur in executing the preceding order, to receive the underwood from
him and take it to the said castle. By C. |
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April 5.
Berkhampstead. |
To the collectors of customs in the port of Great Yarmouth, Order to
permit Walter de Mauny to take 78 sacks 11 stones of wool from that port
without paying the custom and subsidy thereon, in full payment of
156l. 16s. 5d. in which the king is bound to him for 23 sarplars of his wool
taken by Roger de Haveryng of London, merchant, as the king previously
ordered them to do this and they have not done so because the indenture
made thereupon is in the name of Roger de Clopton and not of Roger de
Haveryng, and Roger has taken oath in chancery that he is called indifferently Roger de Haveryng and Roger de Clopton. By C. |
April 6.
Berkhampstead. |
To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides and wool-fells and of the
subsidy in the port of London. Order to pay to Arnald de Camparian or
his attorney 71l. 16½d., as the king lately ordered them to pay 468l. 18s. 1½d.
to John Dardiles and other merchants of Aquitaine [as at page 59 above]
and the king ordered the treasurer and chamberlains to pay to Michael
Mynyot late his butler, 485l. due to him and to delay payment of 86l. 22½d.
to Arnald for wine bought of him by Michael, on account of suspicion
held of him and suspicion is held of Peter de Camparian and not of
Arnald, as has been testified before the council. By C. |
April 5.
Berkhampstead. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to charge the
merchants of the societies of the Bardi and Peruzzi with 64 sacks, 15 cloves
of wool, of the sort of co. Sussex at 7 marks a sack, received by them of
John de Warenna, earl of Surrey, of the 200 sacks which the king ordained
to be bought of the earl, discharging him of the residue of those sacks,
receiving from the merchants an indenture made between the earl and
Hugh di Ficull, the merchants' attorney, as the earl is satisfied for 300l.
for that wool, and has delivered it to the merchants, because it has seemed
to the council that the residue would not be useful to the king, as may
appear by the said indenture. By C. |
April 6.
Berkhampstead. |
To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides and wool-fells in the port
of London. Order to deliver to William de Mordon, of London, merchant,
3 sacks 20 cloves of the wool forfeited to the king, or of other wool of long
wool of like value in recompence for a like quantity of his wool delivered
to the king by the merchants of the society of the Bardi, as the king
pardoned William by a fine of 200l. which he made, his trespass in placing
3 sacks 20 cloves of wool in tuns in a ship of Flanders, laded in the port
of London, to defraud the king of the custom and subsidy thereon, of
which trespass he was convicted in the port of Sandwich, where the ship
was driven by a storm; and afterwards, at the request of those of the
council in parts beyond the sea, the king pardoned William the fine, and
ordered the merchants to cause the said wool to be restored to him by
Stephen le Blount, the king's clerk, who took it into the king's hands, as
is said, and the merchants have acknowledged before the council that they
received the wool and delivered it to the king in parts beyond the sea. |
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April 9.
Berkhampstead. |
To John de Stonore and his fellows, arrayers of men at arms, and others
in co. Oxford. Order not to compel Hugh de Berewik to find a hobeler
while he is engaged upon the affairs for which the king has appointed
him, as the king has learned that if he is charged with such a man he will
not be able to attend to the said affairs. By C. |
April 6.
Berkhampstead. |
To the collectors of the customs of wool, hides and wool-fells in the port
of London. Order to permit John de Charnels, the king's clerk, to lade
60 sacks of his own wool in that port, by his attorneys and serjeants, and
take it to the staple at Andewerp, paying the custom and subsidy due
thereon to William de Northwell, keeper of the wardrobe, notwithstanding
any commissions on the custom and subsidy, as on 15 December last the
king granted that John should so take 60 sacks in the port of Kyngestonupon-Hull, and he has informed the king that he cannot lade those sacks
in that port, and has besought the king to grant that he may lade them at
London. By C. |
April 6.
Berkhampstead. |
To the sheriff of Kent and the collectors and receivers of wool for the
king's use in that county. Order to cause to be delivered to the merchants
of the Bardi and Peruzzi what remains of 741 sacks 7 stones of wool
assigned to them in that county, of the 5000 sacks granted to them by the
king, to be brought to London with all possible speed, and delivered to the
collectors there by indenture, to be delivered by them to the merchants, so
that they may lend the wool to the king. By K., the keeper, and C. |
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The like to the following, to wit:— |
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The sheriff of Bedford and receivers of wool there, for 259 sacks
11 stones. |
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The sheriff of Essex and the receivers there, for 474½ sacks 10 stones. |
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The sheriff of Wilts and the receivers there, for 613½ sacks 11½ stones. |
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The sheriff of Warwick and the receivers there, for 324 sacks 5 stones. |
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The sheriff of Hereford and the receivers there, for 168 sacks 4½ stones. |
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The like to the sheriff of Cambridge and the receivers there to take
389 sacks 1 stone of wool to the port of Lenne. |
April 12.
Berkhampstead. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to account with
Maurice de Berkele, or his attorney, for the extent of the manors of
Brymmesfeld, Kyngestanle, Rokhampton, Sharneton, Stapelford and
Kaerkenny, which belonged to John Mautravers, and came into the king's
hands by his forfeiture, and of the manors of Fulbrok and Teukesbury,
which Maurice holds of the king by his commission, rendering the extent
thereof at the exchequer yearly, and to allow to him in that account all the
sums which they shall find him to have paid by the king's order, and
51l. 16s. 0½d. in which the king is bound to him, as appears by two bills
in his possession under the seals of Richard de Feriby and Edmund de la
Beche, late keepers of the wardrobe, respectively, and to inform the king
of what remains due to him by Maurice of the arrears of his account. |
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March 6.
Berkhampstead. |
To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides, and wool-fells in the
port of London. Order to permit Master Paul de Monte Florum, the
king's clerk, or William Potent, chaplain, his attorney, to take 29 sacks
of wool from that port to the staple at Andewerp, without paying the
custom and subsidy due thereon, which wool the king ordered the sheriff of
Kent and receivers of wool in that county to deliver to Paul [as at page 11
above]. By C. |
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April 5.
Berkhampstead. |
To the mayor and bailiffs of Bristol and the collectors of customs in that
town. Order upon sight of these presents to cause two ships called
'la Trinite,' of Hampton, and 'la Nicholas,' of Calchesworth, to be freighted to
take 200 sacks of wool to Gascony, and to deliver the ships so laden to
Adam de Hyndele, attorney general of the mayor of Bordeaux, and to
Anthony Bache, delivering to them reasonable wages for the time when
they are attendant upon the lading of the ships and in taking them to the
said parts, according to the tenor of a former order [as at page 11 above],
which they have not hitherto obeyed, so that the whole duchy of Aquitaine
is in danger of being subjected to an alien power, through the delay
in sending the said wool. The king has ordered the sheriff of
Gloucester to arrest them as rebels if they neglect the premises, and take
them to the Tower of London, to remain there until their punishment is
determined. By C. |
April 7.
Berkhampstead. |
To the treasurer and chamberlains. Order to pay to John Waybom and
the other attorneys of William Dunort, 20 marks upon their expenses in
lading and for the shipment of 2,500 sacks of wool, which the king
granted to William, to be received in the ports of London, Kyngeston upon
Hull, Lenne, Southampton, and Boston, and for their wages. |
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By the keeper. |
April 6.
Berkhampstead. |
To the sheriffs of London. Order to pay to William de Bohun, earl of
Northampton, or to his attorney, 100l. for Easter term last, in accordance
with the king's grant to him and the heirs male of his body of 200l. yearly
of the ferm of that city, until certain reversions fall in to him. |
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By K. and the whole council in Parliament. |
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The like to the sheriff of Essex for 50l. for the same term. |
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To the sheriff of Northampton. Like order to pay 10l. to the earl for
that term, in accordance with the king's grant to him of 20l. yearly of the
issues of that county. By K. and the whole council in parliament. |
March 22.
Berkhampstead. |
To the collectors of customs in the port of Kyngeston-upon-Hull. Order
not to permit any wool of William de la Pole or any other to be taken from
that port, unless by the king's special order, before satisfaction has been
made to Queen Isabella for 500l. yearly, and the arrears of the same, which
the king ordered the collectors to pay to her [as at page 12 above], as
the king has been informed that several merchants and others in the passage
of their wool from that port to parts beyond the sea have made divers letters
obligatory to William, to whom the king granted all the customs and
subsidies in that port, for paying the custom and subsidy due on their wool,
whereby the payment to the queen has hitherto been much delayed. |
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By p.s. [11806.] |
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The like to the collectors in the port of Boston for 500l. |
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To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides and wool-fells in the
port of London. Like order to pay 500l. to the queen and the arrears
thereof. |
April 22.
Berkhampstead. |
To John de Wodehous, keeper of the hanaper of chancery. Order to
deliver to William de Emeldon and John de Codyngton, the king's clerks,
8l. 6s. for their expenses and for divers payments made by them for horses
and carts for carrying the rolls, writs, inquisitions and memoranda of the
chancery of the king and his father from London to York, for which the
king sent them together with Theobald Poleyn, his clerk. By C. |
April 10.
Berkhampstead. |
To the collectors of the customs of wool, hides and wool-fells in the port
of London. Order to permit Robert Inkepenn, of Winchester, to take 4000
wool fells from that port to the staple at Andewerp, receiving a moiety of
the custom and subsidy due thereon, in accordance with the king's grant to
him, as the king was bound to him in 408l. 13s. 10d. for his wool sent to
ports beyond the sea, and the king granted that he should have allowance
of 300l. thereof in the port of London, and of the remaining 108l. 13s. 10d.
in the port of Southampton, in the custom and subsidy on his wool, and
Robert has besought the king to permit him to take 4000 fells as aforesaid. |
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By C. |
April 6.
Berkhampstead. |
To the collectors of customs in the port of Lenne. Order to receive from
Warin de Bassyngbourn, sheriff of Huntingdon, all the wool of that
county which the king ordered him to take to that port, by indenture, and
to keep it safely until further orders. By C. |
April 26.
Berkhampstead. |
To Thomas de Foxle, constable of Wyndesore castle. Order to cause
300 quarrels for springalds and arbalests for two feet, and 1000 quarrels for
lesser arbalests, to be taken to Southampton and delivered by indenture to
Robert de la Barre, of Southampton, for the munition of the town against
hostile attacks. By bill of the keeper. |
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April 8.
Berkhampstead. |
To William de Monte Acuto, earl of Salisbury, fermor of the manors of
Wodestok and Hanebergh, or to him who supplies his place there. Order
to pay to Peter de Dudecote, clerk of works of the king's manor of
Wodestok, as much money as is needed for repairing the king's houses,
walls, mills, ponds, and the palings of his parks, and for the maintenance
of the king's stud and wild beasts there, and for the payment of the
accustomed wages, and for the parker of Cornbury park. By C. |
April 6.
Berkhampstead. |
To the sheriff of Wilts. Order to cause victuals to be bought to the
sum of 20l. and placed in Old Sarum castle for the munition thereof, as
the king's enemies propose to invade the realm. By C. |
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To the same. Like order to place as many men at arms and other armed
men and archers in that castle as are necessary for its defence. By C. |
April 12.
Berkhampstead. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer and to the chamberlains.
Order to deliver to Robert de Artoys or his attorney 400l. for Easter term
last in recompence for 400l. in accordance with the king's grant to him on
26 March in the 12th year of the reign of 800 marks yearly in aid of his
maintenance, to wit 25 marks of the prior of Sele, 20l. of the prior of
Pritelwelle, 50 marks of the prior of Theford Monachorum, 37l. 10s. of the
prior of Panfeld and Welles, 60l. of the prior of Montacute, 80l. of the prior of
Eye, 10 marks of the prior of Pontefract, 10 marks of the prior of Blythe,
50 marks of the prior of Holy Trinity, York, 50l. of the prior of St. Neot's
and 49l. 3s. 4d. of the prior of Okebourn, of the ferms which they are
bound to render to the king yearly for the custody of their priories; as the
king has been informed by Robert that the treasurer, barons and chamberlains have assigned the said sums in another manner and have received a
part thereof at the king's receipt. By C. |
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April 12.
Berkhampstead. |
To the treasurer and chamberlains. Order to account with Richard earl
of Arundel, for the wages of the ten men at arms and forty archers whom
the king ordained by the advice of the council that he should retain in
garrison at Porchester castle, allowing 12d. daily for each man at arms
and 3d. for each archer from 13 February last to the present time, and to
pay such wages henceforth for the time that Richard shall remain in the
custody of the castle. By C. |
March 18.
Byfleet. |
To Thomas bishop of Hereford, keeper of Ireland, or to him who supplies
his place there. Simon Fitz Richard has shown the king that whereas
Hugh de Lacy, who was banished for sedition in the late king's time and
was afterwards restored by consideration of the king's court in that land,
and his forfeited lands restored to him, and although after the restoration
he granted 2 messuages and 1½ carucates of land in Pychardeston and
Heyneston in Ireland, to Robert Power, clerk, by charter, and Simon
acquired them of Robert in fee, yet the justiciary of Ireland caused them to
be taken into the king's hand by reason of a judgment of treason against
Hugh and by virtue of the king's writ so to take his lands, whereupon
Simon has besought the king to provide a remedy; the king therefore
orders the keeper to hear Simon's plaint, summoning before him the king's
serjeants and others, and if he finds that Hugh granted the said tenements
to Robert and that Simon acquired them as aforesaid, then to cause them
to be restored to Simon together with the issues thereof. |
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Changed, because it was sealed by the king at another time. |
April 14.
Berkhampstead. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Whereas the king
requested divers abbots and priors of co. Worcester to supply him with
cart horses before his passage across the sea, and ordered the sheriff of the
county by writ of privy seal to receive the horses and cause them to be
found from the issues of his bailiwick, and afterwards the king ordered him
by another writ of privy seal to bring the horses to Ipswich, and he received
eight horses and delivered them to William de Clee, the king's clerk, as
may fully appear, he says, by letters patent in his possession, the king
orders the treasurer and chamberlains to view the writs, and cause the
sheriff to be discharged of the eight horses, allowing him his reasonable
expenses. |
April 10.
Berkhampstead. |
To the same. Order to supersede the demand made upon Robert de
Popham to render his account from 10 October last, provided that he
render the account before that day, as the king appointed John de Roches
and Robert to receive from the cities, boroughs and towns in co. Southampton
the sum for each of the three years of the tenth and fifteenth last granted
at Notyngham, as had been levied in the tenth year, so that they should
answer for that money on the morrow of St. Andrew and the Purification,
and afterwards on 10 October the king appointed Nicholas de la Bere in
Robert's place. |
March 17.
Berkhampstead. |
To William Trussel, escheator this side Trent. Order to permit A. bishop
of Winchester to hold the manors of Intebergh, co. Worcester, Compton
Valence, co. Dorset, and Neweton, co. Southampton, and certain lands in
Spene, co. Berks, and not to intermeddle further therewith, as the king
committed to Laurence de Hastynges, his yeoman, the custody of all the lands
of his inheritance which are in the hands of the king, and are committed to
divers other men until Laurence should come of age, except those which
Henry de Lancastr[ia], earl of Derby, holds of that inheritance by the
king's commission, rendering the extent thereof at the exchequer, and the
king ordered the escheator to deliver the said lands to Laurence, and
afterwards the king learned from the bishop that the escheator intended to
amove the bishop from the said manors and lands, which are of Laurence's
inheritance, and which the bishop holds by the king's grant until
Laurence shall come of age, in recompence of certain debts in which the
king is bound to the bishop, and although the king several times ordered the
escheator to permit the bishop to hold the premises or show cause why he
should not do this, yet he returned that he could not obey the order in
favour of the bishop, because on 4 February last he had delivered all the
lands of the said inheritance to Laurence by virtue of the previous order.
The king has ordered the bishop to retain the said manors and lands in
accordance with the king's grant to him, so that he be not aggrieved
by reason of the retention of the same in the king's hands. By C. |
April 12.
Berkhampstead. |
To the sheriff of Berks. Order to cause a coroner for that county to be
elected in place of Richard Bysshop of Abyndon, deceased. |
April 10.
Berkhampstead. |
To the sheriff of York. Order to pay to Margery, late the wife of
Duncan de Frendraght, 24 marks 6s. 8d., for Easter term last in
accordance with the king's grant to her of 49 marks yearly of the issues of
that county in recompence for the manor of Briggestok, co. Northampton,
which she held at will, and which the king assigned to Queen Isabella. |
April 11.
Berkhampstead. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause 24 marks,
6s. 8d., to be allowed to the sheriff of York if they find him to have paid
that sum to Margery by virtue of the preceding order. |
April 13.
Berkhampstead. |
To the sheriff of York. Order to pay to Joan Comyn, of Boghan, 20l.
for Easter term last, in accordance with the king's grant to her of 40l. a
year by the hands of the sheriff. |
April 15.
Berkhampstead. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause 20l. to be
allowed to Ralph de Hastyng, sheriff of York, if they find that he has paid
that sum to Joan by virtue of the preceding order. |
April 12.
Berkhampstead. |
To the same. Edward de Kendale, executor of the will of Robert de
Kendale, has besought the king to order 6l. 2s. 5d. to be allowed to him in
14l. 12d. owing to him as executor, of the 264l. which the late king ordered
by writ of liberate to be paid to Robert for the time when he was constable
of Dover castle, for his wages and those of the men staying in the castle,
and 6l. 2s. 5d. are exacted of Edward as Robert's son and heir and tenant
of part of the lands which belonged to Elena, late the wife of Walter de
Huntercoumbe, for a portion of a debt of Walter for lands in Wrastlyngworth; the king therefore orders the treasurers and barons to inspect their
rolls and memoranda, and if they find that 14l. 12d. are owing to Robert,
then to cause allowance to be made to Edward as aforesaid. By C. |
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April 15.
Berkhampstead. |
To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides and wool-fells in the port
of London. Order to deliver the wool found in 4 tuns 3 bales in a ship of
Flanders and the 3 pockets of wool and 64 wool-fells found in a ship of
Robert Garlyk at Gravesend, which were not coketted and were forfeited, to
Nicholas Pyk and John de Orton, by indenture, to be taken to the king to
parts beyond the sea, for the expenses of his chamber. By C. |
March 30.
Berkhampstead. |
To the collectors of customs in the port of Hertilpol. Order to permit
Robert Datheles and Adomar Datheles to take 34 sacks of their wool, by
their attorneys, to the staple at Andewerp, notwithstanding the king's
commission to William de la Pole of the customs and subsidies in that
port, as on 16 January last the king granted that Robert should so take
20 sacks, and on 18 January following he made a like grant to Adomar for
14 sacks, paying 40s. a sack to William de Northwell, keeper of the wardrobe, and the king ordered the collectors to permit them to take the wool
as aforesaid, but although Robert and Adomar have laded the wool in that
port the collectors prevent them from taking the wool, owing to the grant
of the custom and subsidy in that port to William by the king's commission, dated 25 January last; and the king wishes all grants of permission
to take wool to the staple made before the grant to William, to remain
in force. By p.s. |
April 1.
Berkhampstead. |
To the sheriff of Devon and the other receivers of the king's wool in
that county. Order to deliver without delay to the collectors of customs
in the port of Exeter all the wool collected by them, with the money
received by them for such wool, by indenture. By C. |
April 1.
Berkhampstead. |
To the collectors of customs in the port of Exeter. Order to receive the
wool and money from the sheriff and others and keep them safely until
further orders. By C. |
April 10.
Berkhampstead. |
To the same. Order to deliver to the merchants of the societies of the
Bardi and Peruzzi what is in arrear to them of 366½ sacks 8½ stones of
wool which the king granted that they should have in co. Devon of the
5,000 sacks of wool which he granted to them. By C. |
April 18.
Berkhampstead. |
To Ed[mund] de la Beche, the king's clerk, and the sheriff of
Southampton. Order not to compel the abbot of King's Beaulieu to find
any men beyond two archers to garrison the town of Southampton, so
that he shall find the two archers and pay the sum assessed upon him
in aid of enclosing that town, as he is finding men at arms and others at
his cost in the abbey and other places near the new forest, against invasion,
whereupon he has besought the king to order him to be discharged of the
two armed men and four archers whom he is charged by the council to find
for the garrison of Southampton, as he cannot support such a charge, and
the king has ordained by the advice of the council that the abbot shall find
two archers as aforesaid. By C. |
April 18.
Berkhampstead. |
To the keepers of the maritime land in co. Sussex. Order not to compel
the abbot of Waverle to find any men at arms or others for that custody
by reason of his lands in that county, as he has shown the king that although
he has gone to the parts of Southampton with men at arms and others, to
the extent of his ability, and is staying there for the safe custody of
Southampton and the maritime land in those parts, yet the keepers distrain
him to find two men at arms by reason of his lands in Chilgrove, co.
Sussex, which, it is said, do not exceed the value of 40s. yearly. By C. |
April 20.
Berkhampstead. |
To the justice of North Wales or to him who supplies his place there
and to John de Ellerker, chamberlain there. John de Leycestr[ia], citizen
of Dublin, has besought the king to order his ship, wool and merchandise
to be de-arrested and delivered to him, as he took certain victuals from
Ireland to the port of Skymburnesse and sold them there, and he took 6
sacks and a pocket of wool as the price of certain of those victuals
and caused them to be loaded and took them to Dublin to pay custom in
the port there, and the ship was driven to the port of Kaernervan by a
storm, and was there arrested because the wool was not coketted; the king
therefore orders the justice and chamberlain to receive 20 marks from John
for custom, subsidy and fine and to take security that he will not take the
wool elsewhere than to Dublin and to cause the ship to be de-arrested and
delivered to him, and to cause letters testifying the receipt of the 20
marks to be made in his discharge and delivered to him. By C. |
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To the treasurer and chamberlains. Order to give payment or an
assignment to John de Insula, mayor of Bordeaux, for 206l. 6s. 8d., remaining
of 406l. 6s. 8d. in which the king was bound to him for divers costs
incurred by him in the defence of that city, as is found by account made
before Nicholas Usus Maris, constable of Bordeaux, by his certificate under
the seal of the king's court of Gascony, as the king ordered the constable
to pay John 200l. sterling of the money of the sale of 200 sacks of wool
which the king was about to send to the duchy [of Aquitaine] in part payment of the 406l. 6s. 8d. By C. |
April 20.
Berkhampstead. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer and to the chamberlains.
Order to cause payment or assignment on the tenth and fifteenth of the
third year, or of the third year of the triennial tenth granted by the clergy,
to be made to the merchants of the societies of the Bardi and Peruzzi,
for what they shall find that Robert de Wodehous, archdeacon of Richmond, sometime the treasurer, received for the king's use, after inspecting
the rolls and memoranda of the exchequer, causing any tallies levied in
the names of the collectors of the tenth and fifteenth to be delivered to
the merchants in discharge of the collectors, as the king lately ordained,
by the advice of the council, that the merchants should cause wool to be
bought for the king's use in the city of London and in cos. Kent, Somerset,
Dorset, Cornwall, Devon, Warwick, Hereford, Bedford, Buckingham,
Cambridge, and Essex, received by the sheriffs and other receivers and
delivered at the exchequer, and the money for the wool was received by
Robert and none of it has been delivered to the merchants, wherefore they
have besought the king to cause them to be satisfied. By C. |
April 20.
Berkhampstead. |
To the bailiffs of the 'tolbothe,' Bishop's Lynn. Order to permit
William Potente, attorney of Master Paul de Monte Florum, the king's
clerk, to take 117 sacks 7 stones of wool from that port to the king in
parts beyond the sea, without paying custom thereon, as the king assigned
those sacks to Paul to be so taken, but the bailiffs exact divers customs as
if it was the wool of merchants, and will not permit the attorney to lade
the wool without paying such customs, at which the king is much angered
because customs ought not to be exacted of his own wool in the realm. |
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By C. |
April 20.
Berkhampstead. |
To the collectors of customs in the port of Bristol. Order to permit
John Ryoun, and his fellows, merchants of Bayonne, to take 51 sacks 2
cloves of wool from that port to Bayonne without paying custom and
subsidy, as the king ordered the collectors of customs in the port of
London to deliver to the merchants sacks of the king's wool of co.
Sussex at 9 marks the sack, to the sum of 306l. 5s., in which sum the
king was bound to the merchants for wine bought of them by Michael
Mynyot, late the king's butler, and the collectors delivered 51 sacks 2
cloves, and the merchants propose to take them from London to Bristol
and lade them there, as the king previously ordered the said collectors in
the port of London to pay 306l. 5s. to the merchants, and afterwards the
merchants informed the king that they could not obtain payment, and
they besought him to grant them wool to the same value. By C. |
April 26.
Berkhampstead. |
To William de Clynton, earl of Huntingdon and constable of Dovercastle. Order to cause the castle to be supplied with twenty men at arms,
forty armed men, and forty archers, receiving each 12d., 6d., and 3d.
daily, respectively, from the present month of Easter until the quinzaine
of Trinity following, according to the ordinance made with the advice of
the council. By C. |
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To the treasurer and chamberlains. Order to give payment or an
assignment to the earl for the said wages. By C. |
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April 15.
Berkhampstead. |
To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides, and wool-fells, and of
the subsidy of the port of London. Order to deliver to John Ryoun
and his fellows, merchants of Bayonne, wool of co. Sussex to the value of
306l. 5s., in which the king is bound to them [as above], as they have
informed the king that they have not hitherto been able to receive payment thereof, and have besought him to permit them to take the wool to
Bayonne without paying the custom and subsidy due thereon. By C. |
April 8.
Berkhampstead. |
To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides and wool-fells in the port
of London. Order to deliver to the merchants of the societies of the Bardi
and Peruzzi all the issues of the customs in that port from Easter last for
a year, together with a part of the coket seal, because the king has granted
these to them according to agreements contained in an indenture made in
parts beyond the sea, although the king lately ordered them to keep all those
issues safely, and not to deliver them to William de la Pole or the merchants of the society of the Bardi. By K. the keeper and C. |
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The like to the collectors of the new custom in the port of London. |
April 15.
Berkhampstead. |
To the mayor and bailiffs of Bristol and to the collectors of customs there.
Repetition of an order to deliver two ships to Adam de Hyndeley and
Anthony Bache, paying wages and expenses to them [as at page 63 above]
as they have not hitherto done this, asserting that they have none of the
king's money in their possession. The king orders the mayor and bailiffs
to cause the money necessary for this to be levied of the money of the third
year of the tenth and fifteenth in that town. By C. |
April 17.
Berkhampstead. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to allow to the
mayor and bailiffs the sums which they shall be found to have expended by
virtue of the preceding order. By C. |
April 15.
Berkhampstead. |
To William de la Pole or his attorneys in the port of Lynn. Order to
permit William Potente, chaplain, attorney of Master Paul de Monte
Florum, the king's clerk, to take 66 sacks from that port to the staple at
Andewerp, without paying the custom and subsidy thereon, in accordance
with the king's order on 28 January last, to the collectors of customs in
that port [as at page 4 above], which sacks William Muchet, late sheriff of
Huntingdon, and the other receivers of the king's wool in that county,
delivered to them, as although the collectors delivered the sacks to
William, yet William de la Pole will not permit him to take them away
without paying the custom and subsidy to him, by reason of the king's
commission to William de la Pole of the custom and subsidy in that port. |
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By C. |
April 15.
Berkhampstead. |
To the sheriff of York. Order to cause the victuals, provided by the
king's purveyors in those parts, to be taken with all speed to Kyngeston
upon Hull, and to pay for the carriage thereof. By C. |
April 15.
Berkhampstead. |
To the sheriff of Somerset. Order to go with knights and other lawful
men of that county to Wells to examine a silver mine reported to be found
there, and to inform the king thereupon. By C. |
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To Thomas de Ferariis, keeper of the islands of Gernereye, Jereseye,
Serk and Aureneye, or to him who supplies his place. Order to supersede
the demand made upon William le Counte of Jereseye for 200 livres tournois
if he finds William to have been seised of certain tenths in that island
before the date of the king's commission to Robert de Jarum and Philip de
Barton, to take into the king's hands the lands of aliens, and to release
William from prison and cause his lands and chattels to be dearrested, as
at the suit of William, beseeching the king to cause him to be released from
prison and his goods and chattels to be restored to him, as the abbot of St.
Sauveur le Vicomte in Normandy, long before the war with France and
the lands of alien men of religion were taken into the king's hands, demised
certain tenths in that island pertaining to his monastery, to William, to
hold in part satisfaction of 800 livres tournois in which the abbot was bound
to William for divers things bought for the monastery, the keeper and his
ministers of that island, asserting that those tenths ought to pertain to the
king, caused William to be arrested with his goods and chattels and
detained him a long while in prison, because he would not satisfy them for
200 livres tournois for the said tenths; and the king ordered the keeper to
take information thereupon, and by the return of the person supplying his
place it is found that the tenths were demised by the abbot to William from
August, 1336, on Sunday before Midsummer, in payment of a debt for wine
sold to the abbot, and William was imprisoned and his goods arrested by
Philip, and the tenths and other goods pertaining to the said monastery in
that island were taken by Robert and Philip about Michaelmas, and the
tenths are worth 200 livres tournois in common years. By C. |
April 6.
Berkhampstead. |
To the collectors of customs in the port of Bristol. Order to permit the
merchants of the society of the Bardi to take 700 sacks of wool, and those
of the Peruzzi 150 sacks, from that port to parts beyond the sea, without
paying the custom and subsidy due thereon, as the king granted that they
should take 7,000 sacks, and afterwards ordained that they should take
1,000 sacks, and that the sending of the residue should cease; and
subsequently the king granted that the merchants should take 600 sacks
beyond the 1,000 sacks, from Boston, and afterwards the merchants besought
the king to permit them to take the residue of the 7,000 sacks, and the king
has granted that they shall take them as follows, to wit: the Bardi, 700 in
the port of Boston, 500 in the port of Kyngeston upon Hull, 700 in the
port of Southampton, 270 in the port of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1,600 in the
port of London; and the Peruzzi, 150, 250, 150, 80 and 1,000 sacks in the
same ports; and the king ordered the collectors of customs in the said
ports to permit the merchants to take the wool so assigned to them, as
aforesaid, and the merchants have surrendered the writ directed to the
collectors in the port of Southampton, to chancery to be cancelled and
have besought the king that they may take from the port of Bristol the
wool granted to them in the port of Southampton, to the parts of
Lombardy. By C. |
April 20.
Berkhampstead. |
To Almaric de Sancto Amando, Nicholas de la Beche, Edmund de la
Beche, Robert Dachard, and James de Wodestok. Order to discharge co.
Berks of twenty armed men and twenty archers, while twenty men at
arms and forty archers are at Southampton, at the cost of the men of the
county, provided that fifteen men at arms, twenty armed men and twenty
archers are elected and arrayed in that county, as the king sent
Almaric and the others to choose and array fifteen men at arms, sixty
armed men and sixty archers in co. Berks to set out with the keeper of
England against the king's enemies, if they should invade the realm, and
the community of the county has sent the said twenty men and forty
archers for the custody of the maritime land at Portesmuth, co. Southampton for a year or more, and they are now staying at Southampton at
the cost of the county, according to the injunction of the council. By C. |
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April 18.
Berkhampstead. |
To the collectors of customs in the port of Bristol. Order to deliver to
the merchants of the societies of the Bardi and Peruzzi or to their attorneys
219 sacks, 17 cloves of the king's wool of co. Somerset, by indenture, with
the money received thereof in part payment of 5,000 sacks which the king
granted to them, as the king granted them 522 sacks 7½ stones of that
wool, and ordered the collectors of the customs of wool, hides, and woolfells in the port of London to deliver that wool to them, and the collectors
delivered 302 sacks 50 cloves, which they had received from the receivers of
wool in co. Somerset, as the collectors have certified in chancery, and
219 sacks 17 cloves remain to be paid. By C. |
April 26.
Berkhampstead. |
To the collectors of customs in the port of Lenn. Like order to deliver
to the said merchants or their attorneys 93 sacks 34 cloves of the king's
wool of co. Buckingham in recompence for that quantity of wool in arrear
to them of 170 sacks 20 stones, being part of the said 5,000 sacks, as the
king granted them 226 sacks of his wool of that county, and ordered the
collectors of the custom of wool, hides, and wool-fells in the port of
London to deliver 226 sacks to them, and afterwards, because the merchants lent 170 sacks 20 cloves (sic) of that wool to the king to supply a
total of wool reserved to him in the port of London, the king ordered the
collectors to deliver wool of cos. Oxford and Berks to that value to the
merchants, and the collectors delivered 76 sacks 38 cloves of the king's
wool of co. Berks, and 93 sacks 34 cloves are still in arrear to the merchants. |
April 1.
Berkhampstead. |
To the sheriff of Somerset and the other receivers of the king's wool in
that county. Order to cause all the wool received by them with money
received for it, to be delivered by indenture, without delay, to the collectors
of customs in the port of Bristol. By C. |
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Order to the collectors to receive the wool-and keep it safely until
further orders. By C. |
April 25.
Berkhampstead. |
To the collectors of customs in the port of Boston. Order to permit John
de Wesenham to take what remain to be laded of 200 sacks of wool granted
to him in part payment of a sum due to him by the king, to the staple at
Andewerp, without paying the custom and subsidy, notwithstanding the
grant of the custom and subsidy in that port to William de la Pole, and
to cause letters patent under the coket seal to be made for John,
or under the half seal if William's attorney will not set the other half seal
thereto. By C. |
April 25.
Berkhampstead. |
To the same. Like order to permit the attorney of John de Molyns to
take 15 sacks of wool from that port to the staple. By C. |
April 29.
Berkhampstead. |
To Everard le Frensh. Whereas the king ordered the mayor and bailiffs
of Bristol and the collectors of customs there to deliver two ships to Adam
de Hyndeleye and Anthony Bache [as at page 63 above] the king orders
Everard to show all diligence in attendance upon the premises. By C. |
April 28.
Berkhampstead. |
To the mayor and bailiffs of Bristol and the collectors of customs there.
Order to deliver ships as aforesaid to Adam and Anthony or to Luke Bache,
his attorney and cause 200 sacks of wool to be placed therein by the view
and testimony of Everard, and to pay Adam 100s. upon his expenses and
reasonable wages to Luke for the time he spends at Bristol in attendance
upon the premises, and to permit Adam and Luke to take the wool to
Gascony without paying the custom and subsidy, knowing that the king
will punish them if the sending of the wool to Gascony is further delayed. |
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By C. |
April 1.
Berkhampstead. |
To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides, and wool-fells and of the
subsidy in the port of London. Order to pay twenty seven mariners of
three boats of Flanders, which have stayed in that port for eight days by
the order of the council, 54s. for their expenses, of the king's gift. |
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By C. |
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To the same. Order to pay to the masters and mariners of the ships in
which are the wools of the king and their assigned to William Dunort
and the merchants of the society of the Bardi to be taken to Andewerp,
reasonable costs of the freighting of the ships and the expenses of lading. |
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By C. |
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To the same. Order to pay to Nicholas Pyk reasonable costs for
freighting, lading, unloading, and relading a ship of his in which is wool
which the king ordered to be brought to him to parts beyond the sea for
the expenses of his chamber. By C. |
April 25.
Berkhampstead. |
To the collectors of customs in the port of Boston. Order to cause
certain of the king's wool brought to that port and not yet laded, to be
laded without delay and to deliver the costs of lading and of freighting the
ships and other necessaries by indenture, to John de Wesenham, the king's
clerk, whom the king has charged to accelerate the said lading. By C. |
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April 13.
Berkhampstead. |
To Gilbert Talbot, justice of South Wales, or to him who supplies
his place. Order to cause to come before him and the chamberlain of
those parts, all those of the said parts who owe any debts to the king or to
Richard de Welles the late chamberlain, in the king's name, of whose
names Richard will inform them, and to cause an indenture to be made
between Richard and the chamberlain concerning such debts and others
which shall be found, delivering one part to Richard and one to the
chamberlain, and use all diligence so that the debts shall be levied and
delivered to the chamberlain, and to keep all the money levied under his
seal, and that of Richard, as Richard has besought the king to provide a
remedy as divers sums are owed to him and he cannot answer for them
because he is amoved from his office. The king has ordered the chamberlain
to make the indenture according to the advice of the justice, and to levy
the debts with all possible speed. By C. |
April 12.
Berkhampstead. |
To Hugh de Ulseby, the king's butler, or to him who supplies his place
in the port of London. Order to deliver to Isabella de la Helde a tun of
wine, in accordance with the king's grant to her of a tun of wine yearly in
that port, to be received for life by the hands of the butler. |
April 16.
Berkhampstead. |
To Robert de Mauley, keeper of the hay of Beskwode in the forest of
Shirwod, or to him who supplies his place. Order to deliver the timber
necessary for repairing a house in Nottingham castle, the king's mills there
and the weirs of the mills, to William de Eland, constable of the castle, by
indenture. By the keeper. |
April 15.
Berkhampstead. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer and to the chamberlains.
Order to account with Guy de Ferers for his wages and those of the men
at arms with him in garrison at Perth in Scotland from 16 July last until
Martinmas following, and to pay him what they find to be due to him. |
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By C. |
April 18.
Berkhampstead. |
To Edmund de la Beche, late keeper of the wardrobe. Order to account
with Richard de Cardoill, the king's yeomen, for the wages and robes which
he ought to receive from the king for the time when he was staying in the
household, and for the time when he was in the king's service in divers
parts of the realm, and in Scotland, and in parts beyond the sea, and to
cause a bill under the keeper's seal, to be made to him for what has not
hitherto been accounted for with him, for the time when Edmund was
keeper of the wardrobe. By the keeper and C. |
April 18.
Berkhampstead. |
To the mayor and bailiffs of Lenn. Order to cause a ship called
'le petite Blithe' with the victuals therein, to be de-arrested, and permit John
Rightwys, merchant of Lenn, to take them to Perth or Berwick-upon-Tweed,
by a security that he will not take them elsewhere, as it was lately ordained
by the council that certain ships of Lenn should be deputed to take victuals
to Perth for the maintenance of the garrison there, and the king ordered
the ships then arrested to be de-arrested for that purpose, and John has
informed the king that although he laded the said ship with victuals to
take to Perth, yet the mayor and bailiffs arrested the ship by reason of an
ordinance to arrest ships. By C. |
April 20.
Berkhampstead. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer, and to the chamberlains.
Order to cause payment or satisfaction for 20 marks, to be made to John
Baroncelli and Thomas de Peruch[iis] and their fellows, merchants of the
society of the Peruzzi, if they have paid that sum to brother Geoffrey de
Maldon, when about to set out on the king's service to parts beyond the sea,
as may fully appear, they say, by the letters patent of Geoffrey in their
possession. |
April 20.
Berkhampstead. |
To the sheriff of Gloucester. Order to restore to John atte Mere, clerk,
his lands, goods, and chattels, which were taken into the king's hands on
his being indicted of the homicide of John Hawardyn at Chirchull, before
William de Shareshull and John de Peyto, justices of oyer and terminer in
co. Gloucester, as he has purged his innocence before S. late the bishop of
Worcester, to whom he was delivered by the justices in accordance with
the privilege of the clergy. |
April 20.
Berkhampstead. |
To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides, and wool-fells in the port
of London. Order to deliver 25 sacks 24 cloves of wool in 20 sarplars, of the
king's wool of co. Gloucester in a ship of Goscelin Ateles, and 3 sacks 28
cloves of wool in 3 sarplars of the king's wool of co. Worcester, in a ship of
John Dyve in the said port, to Robert Power, by indenture, to be taken to
the king to parts beyond the sea for the expenses of his chamber. By C. |
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To the sheriff of Derby. Order to cause a verderer for the forest of High
Peak, to be elected in place of William de Gratton, deceased. |
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To the sheriff of Norfolk. Order to expend up to 20 marks in repairing
the houses, walls, towers, turrets and other buildings of Norwich castle, by
the view and testimony of Ralph de Bockyng. By C. |
April 24.
Berkhampstead. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to discharge the
men of the towns of Stondlond, Whiteclife, Swanewich and Herstone co.
Dorset and the takers and purveyors of wool in that county, of the wool
which the king has pardoned them, to wit: 12 cloves, 6 cloves, 15 cloves, and
14 cloves respectively, in consideration of the damage suffered by them in
the burning of their houses, and the plundering of their goods and chattels
by the late invasion in that county with galleys and ships. |
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By the keeper and C. |
April 23.
Berkhampstead. |
To the treasurer and chamberlains. Order to pay to Richard de Cardoil,
squire of the king's household, 12l. 14s. 0¼d. in which the king is bound to
him for his wages and robes between the last day of August in the 11th
year of the reign and 11 July following, and for his wages and expenses
on divers services and for replacing his horses lost in the king's service,
as may fully appear, he says, by a bill in his possession under the seal of
Edmund de la Beche, late keeper of the wardrobe. By the keeper. |
April 26.
Berkhampstead. |
To the sheriff of Lincoln. Order to pay to William Fraunk 25 marks for
Easter term last, in accordance with the king's grant to him, on 18
February in the 12th year of the reign, of 50 marks yearly for life by the
hands of the sheriff, until he is provided with 50l. of land and rent in the
realm, for life. |
April 28.
Berkhampstead. |
To William Trussel, escheator this side Trent. Order to pay reasonable
wages to Geoffrey de Arleye and William Elys for the time when they held
the parks of Hembury in Saltmarsh which are of the appurtenances of
the bishopric of Worcester, as they were deputed to keep the parks by the
king, at the time of the voidance of the bishopric. |
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By the keeper and C. |
April 30.
Berkhampstead. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer and to the chamberlains.
Order to pay to Guy de Ferrar[iis], 84l. 8s. in which the king is bound to
him for his stay in garrison at Perth for his wages and those of the men
at arms retained by him there between 12 April in the 12th year of the
reign, and 16 July following, as may fully appear, he says, by a bill in his
possession, under the seal of Edmund de la Beche, late keeper of the wardrobe. By C. |
April 26.
Berkhampstead. |
To the sheriff of Northampton. Order to deliver to Queen Isabella full
seisin of a toft and a virgate of land in Getyngdon, which Richard Bule
held, who was hanged for felony, as the king has learned by inquisition
taken by the sheriff that the premises have been in the king's hands for a year
and a day, that Richard held them of the queen, and they are in the custody
of William Trussel, escheator this side Trent, and that Gilbert de Ledred,
late escheator in co. Northampton, had the year, day and waste thereof,
and ought to answer for them to the king. |
April 28.
Berkhampstead. |
To John de Ellerker, chamberlain of North Wales. Order to pay to
Walter de Mauny, appointed on 29 December in the 6th year of the reign
keeper of Hardelagh castle and sheriff of Meryonyth in North Wales for
life, the arrears of his fee from the time of the chamberlain's appointment,
and to pay his wages henceforth so long as he is chamberlain. |
April 28.
Berkhampstead. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to discharge the
heirs and executors of Roger Mauduyt, to whom the king committed the
custody of the manor of Werk-upon-Tweed, co. Northumberland, at the
request of Henry de Bello Monte, for rendering the extent thereof yearly,
of the said extent from 15 May in the 3rd year of the reign, on which day
the king granted the manor to William de Monte Acuto to hold for life,
as William de Ros held it before it came into the late king's hands, to the
value of 60l. 15s. 5d., to wit, 59l. 15s. 5d. yearly, at which the manor was
extended by Thomas de Heton, Robert de Hornclyf and Robert Toghale,
and 20s. increment for a mill destroyed there. |
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April 27.
Berkhampstead. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Nicholas son of William
son of Henry de Sandiacr[a] has shown the king that although it was
returned by the inquisition post mortem of William his father, taken by
John Moryn, escheator beyond Trent, that William held at his death in his
demesne as of fee, in chief, a messuage, a toft, and 4 bovates of land in
Sandiacre, by fealty and the service of rendering 13s. 4d. yearly at the
exchequer, and that he held no other lands in chief as of the crown, and
that Nicholas is his next heir, and was aged fourteen years on 24 September
in the 10th year of the reign, and the king took his fealty and ordered the
escheator to cause him to have seisin of the messuage and land, receiving
security for his reasonable relief; and Nicholas, who was not then fifteen
years of age, acknowledged before the escheator that he held the premises
of the king by the aforesaid services, yet he asserts before the king in
chancery that William his father held a messuage, two bovates, and
4 acres of land in Sandiacre, at his death, by the service of rendering
6s. 8d. yearly at the exchequer, and Nicholas ought to pay relief
therefor, and Nicholas has besought the king not to charge him with relief
beyond the quantity of the lands which are held of the king; and because
Nicholas was a minor at the time of his fealty, the king orders the
treasurer and barons to view the rolls and memoranda of the exchequer,
and if they find that William held the messuage, 2 bovates, 4 acres of land,
by the service of rendering 6s. 8d. yearly, and no more, then they shall
receive his reasonable relief and supersede the demand made upon him for a
greater relief of other lands which he does not hold of the king. By C. |
April 26.
Berkhampstead. |
To the sheriff of Lancaster. Order to cause a coroner for that county
to be elected in place of John de Bredekyrk, who is so sick and weak that
he cannot exercise the duties of the office. |
April 27.
Berkhampstead. |
To the treasurer and chamberlains. Order to pay to Gawayn Corder,
knight of the king's household, any money of 22l. 6s. 8d., and to deliver
the residue to him when there is need, as the king is bound to him in that
sum for his wages and expenses upon certain affairs, and for his fees and
robes between the last day of August in the 11th year of the reign and
11 July following, as may appear by a bill in his possession, under the
seal of Edmund de la Beche, late keeper of the wardrobe. By C. |
April 28.
Berkhampstead. |
To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to permit Philip Crok to exercise the office of verderer in the forest of Chute, as although the king
ordered the sheriff to cause a verderer to be elected in his place, he is
informed that Philip has sufficient lands in that county, stays there, and
is fitted for the office. |
April 18.
Berkhampstead. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to supersede the
demand made on Richard de Walden for rendering his account from 18
August last, as although the king appointed him and Nicholas atte Hawe
to receive the tenth and fifteenth in co. Berks for the 11th year of the
reign and two years following, yet on 18 August last the king appointed
Walter de Norton in his place. |
