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Membrane 5. |
Jan. 2. Melrose. |
To the sheriff of Kaernarvan. Order to inform the treasurer and barons
of the exchequer in England of all the sums which he has delivered to
Robert de Hambury by tallies and acquittances during the time that Robert
was chamberlain of North Wales, until Michaelmas last, on the octaves of
the Purification, and not to deliver any issues henceforth for that time to
Robert or his attorneys until further order, as the king has caused Robert
to be arrested for rendering his account for the issues of North Wales for
the time when he was chamberlain, and he has informed the king that the
issues for the time when he was last chamberlain are in the possession of
the sheriff and of other sheriffs, bailiffs and ministers there who are charged
with the levying thereof, and that unless a small instalment thereof be paid
to him for the said time, whereby he may answer for those issues, he cannot
render his account or satisfy the king. By K. and C. |
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The like to the following:— |
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The sheriff of Angleseye. |
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The sheriff of Meryounyth. |
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To the justice of North Wales or to him who supplies his place. Order
to cause all the said sheriffs to come before him with all the tallies and
acquittances received from Robert for payments from the issues of that
land for the said time, and to supervise the said tallies and acquittances
and cause the sums which have been truly paid and not others or for other
times, to be entered in a schedule and to send the schedule to the exchequer
on the aforesaid day. By K. and C. |
Jan. 10. Melrose. |
To the same. Order to cause the sheriffs of Kaernarvan, Angleseye and
Meryonyth or those who supply their places, or their attorneys to be
distrained by the taking of their lands into the king's hand and in other
ways, to come before the treasurer and barons of the exchequer at
Westminster fifteen days from the Purification with all the rolls, talleys
and other things touching their accounts, to render those accounts there to
the king and Robert and do what the nature of the account requires,
notwithstanding that they have not been accustomed to account for the
issues of their counties elsewhere than at the exchequer of Kaernarvan
before these times, and the justice shall certify the treasurer and barons of
the said exchequer of the names of those sheriffs etc. and of his action in
the matter. By K. and C. |
Jan. 7. Melrose. |
To the sheriff of Kaernarvan. Order to be before the treasurer and
barons of the exchequer at Westminster fifteen days from the Purification
with the said rolls and tallies, to render his account there and further to do
what the nature of the account requires, knowing that if he does not do so
the king will cause him to be amerced at 100l. for his disobedience. |
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By K. and C. |
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The like to the following, to wit:— |
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The sheriff of Angleseye. |
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The sheriff of Meryounyth. |
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To John de Ellerker, chamberlain of North Wales. Order upon pain of
forfeiture to compel by arrest and amercement all sheriffs, bailiffs and
ministers of the king who are charged to levy his debts in that bailiwick, to
pay the money so received by them at the exchequer of Kaernarvan, at a
term determined, and to cause the view of their accounts, arresting them
upon the view of the accounts and upon the fine thereof for all arrears of
the same, in consideration of the king's great need of money for paying his
debts and for the defence of the realm, as the king is informed that divers
sheriffs and other bailiffs and ministers there, deputed to levy such debts
and who ought to pay the money at the said exchequer, delay to do so. |
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By K and C. |
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To the justice of North Wales or to him who supplies his place. Writ of
aid for the said chamberlain in the premises, so that the debts may be levied
with all speed and delivered to the chamberlain. By K. and C. |
Jan. 10. Melrose. |
To John de Ellerker, chamberlain of North Wales. Order to postpone
the payment of the wages and fees of the king's officers and ministers in
North Wales, except where necessary and for the king's benefit, until further
order, as the king cannot conveniently satisfy them at present because of
his debts to divers creditors in parts beyond the sea, and because he needs
a great quantity of money for his affairs and the defence of the realm. It
is his intention that the officers and ministers be satisfied afterwards when
he can conveniently do so. He also orders the chamberlain to pay to the
men in garrison in the castles their reasonable expenses upon the fees of
their superiors. By K. |
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[Fœdera.] |
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To the justice of North Wales or to him who supplies his place. Prohibition to seal or issue under his seals any writs or commissions or other
things which should be sealed under the king's seal, by reason of the office
of chancellor or of the exchequer or otherwise, or to intermeddle with any
fee pertaining to that seal, as the king has learned that he causes judicial
writs and originalia, commissions made in the king's court in that land, and
executions of writs, processes and all other things dependant on such processes in that court, which ought to be sealed with the seal deputed for the
government of that land, to be sealed with his seals. By K. |
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To the sheriff of Kaernarvan. Order to cause proclamation to be made
that all those who wish to obtain judicial writs, commissions and other
mandates which concern the office of the chancery, the chamber and the
exchequer, shall obtain them under the king's seal for the government of
North Wales and none other, paying the customary fees, and the king will
consider all such writs etc. under another seal as null, except bills and commands pertaining to the office of the justice. By K. and C. |
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[Fœdera.] |
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The like to the following, to wit:— |
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The sheriff of Angleseye. |
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The sheriff of Meryounyth. [Ibid.] |
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Membrane 4. |
Jan. 4. Melrose. |
To the sheriff of Huntingdon. Order to restore to John Corbet of
Hamerton, clerk, his goods and chattels, which were taken into the king's
hand upon his being indicted for the theft of two mares and a foal of the
price of 40s. at Dylyngton in a place called 'Piribrok' belonging to John
Russel of Grofham, before the late justices of gaol delivery at Huntyngdon,
as he has purged his innocence before Walter de Stauren, canon of Lincoln
church and guardian of the spirituality of the bishopric of Lincoln during
the voidance, as the justices delivered him to the late bishop of Lincoln,
diocesan of the place, in accordance with the privilege of the clergy. |
Jan. 1. Newcastle-on-Tyne. |
To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides and wool-fells in the port
of London. Order to permit Hugh de Ulseby, Henry Goldbetere and
Walter Prest or their attorney to lade 100 sacks 16 cloves of wool in that
port, after paying at the rate of ½ mark a sack for the custom and take them
to the staple in Flanders, as the king granted them the passage of 320 sacks
of wool in that port of the 1,220 sacks whereof a passage was reserved to
him in the sale of his wool to divers merchants of England and they laded
and took to parts beyond the sea 191 sacks 36 cloves in that port and Robert
de Burghcher in their name so took 28 sacks from the port of Colchester,
of the said 320 sacks, by virtue of the king's orders to the late collectors
of that custom in the port of London, as Gerard Corp and William de
Staunford, late collectors of that custom have certified in chancery. |
Jan. 10. Melrose. |
To the sheriff of Southampton. Order to amove the king's hand without
delay from the lands, goods and chattels of John de Scures, and not to
intermeddle further therewith, restoring the issues thereof to John and
releasing him if he is taken, as the king lately ordered John upon pain of
forfeiture to be in chancery on Monday after St. Andrew last to do what
should be enjoined upon him by the chancellor there, and because he did
not come, the king ordered the sheriff to take him and have him before the
king in chancery on the morrow of Epiphany last to answer for his
disobedience and to seize his lands, goods and chattels and answer therefor
to the king at the exchequer, and the sheriff has returned that he went to
attach John and found him so feeble and broken by age that he could in
no wise travail without danger of death, and he could not have John before
the king on the said day, and he caused all John's lands, goods and chattels
to be seized, in accordance with the order, and that John further told him
that he had received no writ directing him to be before the king in
chancery, and the king has learned from trustworthy testimony that John
is so old and broken by age that he cannot travail. By C. |
Jan. 1. Newcastle-on-Tyne. |
To the receivers of wool in co. Kent. Order upon pain of forfeiture to
deliver by indenture to the deputy of William de Cusancia the treasurer,
and to John le Clerk, John Weybon and Henry le Vynder, serjeants of the
duke of Brabant, all the wool in their custody, until the duke is satisfied
for 400 sacks of wool of 440 sacks, as in part satisfaction of certain sums
in which he is bound to the duke, the king assigned to him 700 sacks of
wool to be received of the first wool in that county, and afterwards, because
the duke could not be satisfied for 700 sacks there, the king ordered 260
sacks of the wool in co. Dorset to be delivered to him in part satisfaction
thereof, and ordered the said receivers to deliver to the duke 400 sacks of
wool and the remaining 40 sacks in money at 9 marks the sack, which they
have not hitherto cared to do, whereat the king is much angered, and unless
the duke is quickly satisfied great damage may accrue to the king, wherefor
he ordered William to depute a fit person to receive the wool from the
receiver and take it to the staple in Flanders with the duke's serjeants and
deliver it to the merchants deputed to sell the king's wool there, and to
deliver the money to the receiver of the king's money in Flanders for the
king's use. The king wishes the duke to be satisfied for the remaining 40
sacks in money, at 9 marks the sack. By C. |
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Mandate in pursuance to William de Cusancia, the treasurer. By C. |
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To the collectors of customs in the port of Sandwich. Order, upon pain
of forfeiture, to permit the said deputy and serjeants to cause the 400 sacks
to be laded in that port and taken to the staple in Flanders, without paying
the custom and subsidy thereon. By C. |
Jan. 1. Newcastle-on-Tyne. |
To the collectors of the custom of wool, hides and wool-fells in the port
of London. Order to permit Hugh de Ulseby, Henry Goldbeter, and Thomas
Colle, the king's merchants, or their attorney to lade 148 sacks 26 cloves 6
pounds of wool in that port, paying at the rate of ½ mark a sack for the custom,
and take them to the staple in Flanders as the king sold to them 209 sacks 6
pounds of wool of co. Worcester of the 30,000 sacks granted in the last
parliament at 18 marks the sack and ½ mark for the custom in the port of
lading, and they laded 60 sacks 26 cloves thereof in that port by virtue of
the king's order to Gerard Corp and William de Staunford, late collectors of
the said custom there and took them to the said parts, as Gerard and
William have certified in chancery. |
Jan. 12. Newminster. |
To Henry de Chalfhunt, escheator in cos. Bedford and Buckingham. Order
to deliver to John de Veer, earl of Oxford, and to Matilda his wife, sister
and co-heir of Giles de Badlesmere, tenant in chief, the following fees which
Elizabeth late the wife of Giles, holds in dower of his inheritance, after
Elizabeth's death, and which the king has assigned to them as the purparty
of Matilda, to wit: a knight's fee in Costowe, co. Wilts, which the abbot of
Stanley holds extended at 6l. 13s. 4d. yearly; a fee in Smythecote, co. Wilts,
which Richard de Dauntesey holds, extended at 10l. yearly, as the king
ordered Roger de Poley, late escheator in those counties to deliver those
fees to the earl and Matilda as aforesaid, and he was amoved from his office
before he had executed the order. |
Jan. 21. Nottingham. |
To Hugh de Ulseby, mayor of the staple at Brugges in Flanders. Order
to cause all the money which he can levy of the king's wool brought to
Flanders by merchants and others to be levied without delay and delivered
to William de Kelleseye, the king's receiver there for making payments
therewith to archers and others as the king has enjoined upon him. By K. |
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To William de Kelleseye, receiver of the money arising from the sale of
the king's wool in Flanders. Order to pay to William de Stury, whom the
king is sending to Flanders on his affairs 200l. for the wages of the archers
staying in the king's service in Flanders and for other things with which
the king has charged him. By K. |
Jan. 20. Morpeth. |
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to assign to Thomas
de Melchebourn and William de Melchbourn, 200l. upon the fine made by
the king's ministers in co. Bedford before Robert Parvyng and his fellows,
justices appointed to hear and determine divers trespasses and excesses
committed in that county upon the expenses incurred by them in the
carriage of divers of the king's victuals to him to the north and for other
costs incurred upon those victuals. By C. |
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To the same. Order to account with Thomas de Melchebourn and
William de Melchebourn for the money received by them for corn and other
victuals which the king ordered to be bought and purveyed by them, and for
those victuals and for the costs incurred by them for garnerage, carriage,
jettison, portage, plantage, levage and stowage, and for the multure of the
corn and for tuns to hold the corn and victuals, and for the wages of the
men working at putting flour in the tuns, and for the carriage of the victuals
and other necessary expenses, and further to do what pertains to the final
issue of the account. By C. |